If 'think' sounds like theenk, then you may have Speedy Gonzales to blame
rather than Bugs Bunny.
If 'did' aounds like dead, y'all have been talking to New Zealanders.
After than I got a bit bored.
Too many gels around here use a speech style that seems to be derived from
Valley Girl style, a sort of unintelligible braying through the front teeth.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 02/06/2011, at 1:51 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
> Well, this discussion has some merit. It got me to looking some stuff up.
> Turns out that my linguistical twistage is heavily documented. In fact, if
> you look here, you'll see my speach pattern quite accurately described:
>
> http://www.stanford.edu/~eckert/vowels.html
>
> The Northen California Vowel shift is very close to my way of speaking, but
> with the twist where words like Detroit are said with a hard DEE-troit.
> Ditroit is for furiners. Di-troy-it is for Canadians.
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