Re: IPA for the Vowel in "good"

Roger Mills wrote:


> Well, you live there, and I don't (anymore)  :-).....  Is that pronunciation
> still current?

Well, I admit I haven't heard it among young people lately, but then
most of the teens I know speak AAVE.  Certainly it's common enough
among their elders.


> Apparently [Vj] or [@j] was also found in Deep South (New Orleans/Delta
> area), where it was considered quite upper-class (Tennessee Williams had
> it-- there's a recording of him reading a story "The Yellow Bird" [bVjd].)
There are a whole bunch of New York-style features in New Orleans
speech; I've often wondered why.`

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