Re: English notation

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 02:32:42PM -0700, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> > >especially strange dialects of it that tensify /I/ before /N/, for
> > >example (that wasn't meant in any offencive way, btw, it was meant as
> > >humour).
> >
> > Well, humor or no, it is getting a bit annoying now, since several other
> > posters have established that /iN/ is widespread in American English, to
> > the extent that I don't recall ever having heard /IN/ in this country,
> > although I have lived on both coasts and in the midwest also.
>
> My Canuck nationalist mate will love you for this one - further proof
> Canadian is different from American English. =)
This [iN] stuff sounds foreign to me too, in Wisconsin. Well, it doesn't
sound exotic or anything, just different from how people I know seem to
talk.

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Eric Christopherson, a.k.a. Contrarian Conlanger Rakko ^_^