New Jersey Dialects

[Rachel E. Shuttlesworth]

I pronounce the days of the week that way as well, but have lived in
Alabama my entire life.
Rachel

Mullins, Bill wrote:

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> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>
> Subject:      New Jersey Dialects
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> I was on a business trip to Ft. Monmouth a few years ago, and the local
> "morning crew" deejays were making fun of south Jersey speech.  The
> particular feature they were picking at was a tendency (which I have no
> knowledge if it's so or not) to pronounce the names of the days of the week
> as "Mondee, Tuesdee" etc instead of "Monday, Tuesday".

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Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellow
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