Re: THEORY: Vowel shift (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)

>"Raymond A. Brown" <raybrown@...> wrote:
> >New Zealand dialects more
> >conservative (more tongue-tied to our origins).
>
>We're not familiar with NZ English - you need to produce a TV series that's
>going to become popular here  :)
>
> >I remember reading a
> >quote some years ago that NZ English showed trends that standard English
> >pronunciation could be expected to follow.  I wondered then how the
> >logistics of that could work,
>
>Ray.

My New Zealander high school principal speaks very Standard English, but
he's also _very_ educated.  Nevertheless, I had no idea where he was from
until I was told. ( Either I'm uniformed about other English dialects, or he
speaks very good standard.)  He doesn't speak anything like Ozzie at all. I
mean, yes, very conservative.

Jennifer


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