Roumania, alligators,"this here" (was: Just a Little Taste ...)

Nik Taylor wrote:

> John Cowan wrote:
> > > cf.
> > > colloquial English "this 'ere").
> >
> > Pronounced [DISj@R] in my dialect.
>
> Interesting.  Perhaps it's because I don't actually use it except as an
> affectation, but when I say it, it's /DIshir=/, that is "this here",
> both words pronounced fully.
    I do use it. In fast speech, though, I tend to drop the /D/ and the
/h/
and it comes out
something like /IsIR/. Sometimes, it sounds to me like it
even gets changed to /hs:IR/.

Dan Sulani


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