antedating (?) "Katy, bar the door" (1890)

[Wilson Gray]

An article in NewsTime claims that the BrE spelling, "Burma" [b^:m@]
is based upon Burmese _Ba:ma_ [b*:m@], itself based upon the standard
BrE transliteration of Sanskrit-based alphabets. The AmE r-ful
pronunciation is based upon the BrE spelling.

-Wilson

On 10/6/07, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ah, Wellman! Who Fears the Devil is one of my all-time favorite books. IMHO,
> though, he should've stuck to his shorts, so to speak; I've read his novels
> once, and that's about that.
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> m a m
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> On 10/4/07, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > whatsoever, since I avoid eye-dialect BE as written by whites on GP
> > and, WRT eye-dialect WE, Erskine Caldwell, MacKinlay Kantor, and Manly
> > Wade Wellman are about as far as I care to go, though I enjoy hearing
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