drawring, etc.

[Wilson Gray]

What you say is historically true, Mark, but couldn't Bev's reanalysis
be relevant for the contemporary language? [Bev, don't I ain't never
did nothing for you.]

-Wilson

On Jan 22, 2005, at 10:14 PM, Mark A. Mandel wrote:

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> beverly writ:
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> (Compare 'oncet/twicet' and
> 'an' < 'a' for other insertions before vowels.)
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> "An" is the older form, a destressed cousin whose fully-stressed form
> became
> "one". "A" before consonants shows a deletion.
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> mark by hand at arisia, snowbound in boston
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