positionality = "social status or position"

[Dennis R. Preston]

Good evidence. Didn't occur to me to look there since I knew we
weren't to 'w' yet. Cool of you to look under 'd.'

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>On 8/29/07, Dennis R. Preston <preston at msu.edu> wrote:
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>>  What evidence do we have that the casual pronunciation of 'w' as
>>  "dubya" is Southern?
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>DARE says the pronunciation is "chiefly Sth, S Midl". First cite given
>is 1941, from a transcription of a black male speaker from East Texas
>(_AmSp_ 16.1, "Negro Speech of East Texas" by Oma Stanley, p. 14).
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