New Jersey Dialects

[Bethany K. Dumas]

>>>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".
>>
>>What's the difference?
>
>/i/ vs /e/. I have the latter, and the former sounds distinctly
>unnatural to me.

Thanks, Me too, It sounds really weird to me to hear /-de/.

Bethany