Strine word NOT in OED

[Aaron E. Drews]

"Douglas G. Wilson" wrote:

> Presumably the 'assprad' spelling is from an Australian making a joke about
> Australian pronunciation?
>

Does Strine have h-dropping?  In Trudgill's recent article about the
genesis of Kiwi English, he says that, even though h-dropping was in the
initial pool of dialects, it didn't survive into what became Kiwi.  I
know Kiwi isn't Strine (totally different if you ask either group), but
I thought they shared h-fullness.  Prof. Sussex?


--Aaron

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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                  Departments of English Language and
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron       Theoretical & Applied  Linguistics

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