LL-L "Language Varieties" 2003.07.06 (15) [E]

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From: Críostóir Ó Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Language Varieties

Jim wrote:

"I. perfek < perfect
exack < exact
respek < respect
objek < object
disinfeck < disinfect"

I don't find this surprising. Such an effect is also
found in the English of South-West England and
Cornwall - and I believe East Anglia - which was the
main source area for American phonetics. To me this
just represents a predictable survival of a local
idiosyncracy.

For the record, the Cornish English forms would be:

purfuck < perfect
zack < exact
ruspeck < respect
objeck < object
disinfeck < disinfect (in some places, past tense
disinfect < disinfected)

Go raibh maith agaibh


Criostóir.

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