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- Tue Nov 19, 2013 11:32 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Who among you is within this isogloss?
- Replies: 43
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Re: Who among you is within this isogloss?
'Aunt' rhymes with 'font' 'Father' rhymes with 'bother' No distinction between 'cot' and 'caught' (I've been trying to get into the habit of pronouncing them [kat] and [kawt], but have no idea what the historical distinction actually is) 'When' is distinct from 'wen' (Googling for the etymology of '...
- Tue Nov 19, 2013 11:09 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Who among you is within this isogloss?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 10043
Who among you is within this isogloss?
[Autobiographical details: I was born in Philadelphia in 1968; have lived in Virginia since the early '70s, but stubbornly resisted Southernisms ever since. When I found out that I was saying 'lightning bugs' instead of 'fireflies', I immediately reverted to the latter.] These are items of my idiole...
- Fri Aug 17, 2012 5:31 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Parlor Game: The Unknown Language Genie
- Replies: 72
- Views: 14416
Re: Parlor Game: The Unknown Language Genie
1. PIE
2. Pictish
3. Etruscan
4. Minoan
5. Harappan
6. Proto-Amerind
2. Pictish
3. Etruscan
4. Minoan
5. Harappan
6. Proto-Amerind
- Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:59 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: An interesting American dialect
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5632
Re: An interesting American dialect
*Unlike any other American I've ever heard, he does not have the Wales/whales merger. I was born in Philadelphia in 1968, & wouldn't be caught dead pronouncing "whales" like Wales. FWIW. OTOH, I don't distinguish between "caught" and "cot" & for me, "father" rhymes with "bother" ... but speakers of...