"Jeet jet?" / "No, jew?" (1925)

[Wilson Gray]

True, dInIs, but it's my experience that Noo-Yawkiz, for some reason, feel
that it's something of which we inlanders have no experience.

-Wilson

On 11/16/05, Dennis R. Preston <preston at msu.edu> wrote:
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> Nothing New York specific about any of the quite regular phonetic
> processes which would reduce "Did you eat yet? No; did you" to
> "Jeetchet? No; jew?"
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> dInIs
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> >Interesting. Thanks, Barry.
> >
> >I first heard it as a graduate student in Fayetteville, AR, ca. 1961 -
> >from a professor from Fayetteville (or nearby), who had been a graduate
> >student at Penn shortly before 1961. (I was not yet a reader of the
> >NYorker.)
> >
> >Bethany
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-Wilson Gray