Re: Scouse final plosives (was: vowel descriptions)

Tom Wier scripsit:

> Wow -- that's really interesting.  Do you have any idea when
> this phenomenon began to occur?  Is it one of those dialectal
> phenomena that's been around for centuries, but just few people,
> except those in the area, talk about?
Unlikely.  Scouse is a 19th century dialect, deriving from the collision
of local speech with a huge influx of Irish immigrants; it continues
to show stratification based on religion (which serves as a marker
for national origin).

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John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
                e'osai ko sarji la lojban.