_Break nasty_ = "jump salty"

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Jump-steady" in HDAS may be tangentially relevant.

JL

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Geoff Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu> wrote:

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> FWIW the Northern Cities Vowel Shift is reported to include this sound
> change, although I must admit I frequently have trouble hearing it despite
> living here. And reputedly Black folk here in the D *don't* have the shift E
> > ^ although this is just academic rumor.  They do participate in the ae >
> E@ change, however. Unfortunately, nobody since Penny Eckert in the
> seventies has looked at vowels in Detroit and I'm so busy doing other things
> that I don't have time. Besides there's the hassle of the IRB application.
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> > We, colored folk, pronounce "steady, sledge, flesh," and a heap of
> > other words with [^] as the stressed vowel in places wherein the
> > standard pronunciation is [E].
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