till

[Lynn C. Hattendorf Westney]

I'm going TUH the store..the post office...dat's how we talk here.

A society is generally as lax as its language.

Lynn C. Hattendorf Westney, Associate Professor,
Assistant Reference Librarian
Coordinator of Reference Collection Development
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

> Yeah, but what do you really say underlyingly (as I tried to express
> earlier, however clumsily). Is this conversation possible in Chicago?
>
> When did you leave?
> Quarter tuh.
>
> Not in the ChiCAWgo I know and love.
>
> dInIs
>
> >In Chi-CAW-go we say quarter tuh all the time!
> >
> >On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Barnhart wrote:
> >
> >>  TlhovwI at AOL.COM,Net writes:
> >>  >I still can't decide if I'm saying "quater to" or "quarter til(l)".
> >>  >All I
> >>  >get is "quarter t' "!
> >>
> >>  Sometimes I think I'm say "tuh".
> >>
> >>  Regards,
> >>  David
> >>
> >>  barnhart at highlands.com
> >>
>
> --
> Dennis R. Preston
> Department of Linguistics and Languages
> Michigan State University
> East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
> preston at pilot.msu.edu
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>