Teenglish from England

Tom Zurinskas truespel at HOTMAIL.COM
Wed Sep 16 11:03:26 UTC 2009


New teenage words from England (perhaps not only England)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1213626/Teenglish-From-Frape-Neek-words-used-teenagers-baffle-adults.html

When I say the word "teenglish" my tongue goes alveolar (top front), but for English it's velar (top back).  Yet the vowel befor the "n" is still long e, ~ee.  ~teenglish ~Eenglish.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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