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I passed this thread along to the American Dialect Society where there has been follow-up.<div><br></div><div>Aloha from Maui</div><div>Benjamin Barrett</div><div>Seattle, WA</div><div><br><div><div>On May 25, 2010, at 7:07 AM, <a href="mailto:rtroike@email.arizona.edu">rtroike@email.arizona.edu</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <span style="display:none"> </span> <div id="ygrp-text"><p><br> David,<br> <br> Charleston is very much a speech island of its own, with a long<br> history. The "gh" in English orthography, which is so troublesome<br> to modern speakers, was there intentionally to represent the former<br> phoneme /x/ (voiceless velar fricative), still found in Scots "loch"<br> for "lake", and still used in cognate German words: Eng right, Ger<br> richt, etc. The fricative was either absorbed into the vowel or not<br> distinguished by children from /f/, which is acoustically very similar,<br> hence "laugh" (Ger lauchen) or occasionally /th/, as in Southern US<br> "drouth" = "drought". Which pronunciations become "standard" and which<br> remain "regional" is often a matter of historical accident (cf. leaf<br> and deaf [Noah Webster preferred /dEf/), wreath and death (Scots /diyth/).<br> <br> You can now search for terms in the Dictionary of American Regional<br> English (DARE) at:<br> <br> <a href="http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=search/node">http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=search/node</a><br> <br> I did a search for "plough mud" and "plow mud" but nothing came up, so<br> they must have missed that. It's not in my OED either. That is something<br> they can include in a supplement.<br> <br> Rudy<br> <br> Rudy Troike<br> Univ. of Arizona<br> <br> </p> </div> <!-- end group email --> </blockquote></div><br></div>
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