quest for info/suggestions. re: dialects

[Pafra & Scott Catledge]

I never saw a Southerner spell "damyankee" as two words before. ;{)
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From: William H. Smith <wh5mith at ATL.MINDSPRING.COM>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: quest for info/suggestions. re: dialects


> In real English (i.e. Southern), "-ing" is pronounced [In] when
unstressed.
> Thus, we have "nothin'" and "somethin'."  In trisyllabics like "anything"
> and "everything," the "-ing" has secondary stress and thus retains the
velar
> nasal.  Them damn yankees ain't smart enough to catch that difference.
> Bill
>
>
> At 07:17 PM 10/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >>  But I stil cringe when I hear strength
> >> pronounced "strenth" rather than "straingth" like all normal,
> >
> >This somehow reminds me of something I've meant to mention before.
> >Why do so many of the Southern-accent-fakers in movies pronounce
> >"anything" with the last syllable sounding like "thin"?  I've never
> >heard any Southerner do that.  We raise the vowel slightly, as one
> >might expect before a nasal, and we have a strong [ng] (nasal velar).
> >   --Natalie Maynor (maynor at ra.msstate.edu)
> >