"Long, Tall Texan"

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Thu Dec 2 01:09:08 UTC 2004


On Dec 1, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> ... As I've noted in reply to a question raised earlier, I've never
> lived
> anyplace where this sound [ [^r^] ] s not used as a pause-filler by
> black people
> - well, it's used by black people of my generation and older, at
> least...

both Major and Smitherman seem to have missed it (at least if i hit all
the places where it might have been listed).

arnold



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