Back Vowel Phonemes

[Dennis R. Preston]

Fiddle-dee-dee. When I come up from Louisville (in the 12th Cent.), they
taught me to talk real good at Madison.

Love the poem; course my correct ) pronunciation of "on" don't help the
second stanza (since I have /a/ in "Hahn" and "Khan"), but it shore will
work good in classes. Thanks,

dInIs



>>Dang! Just fix up one or two here or there (and stop that silly Goth-
>>variation stuff) and you could talk good like me.
>...
>
>>Dennis R. Preston
>>Department of Linguistics and Languages
>>Michigan State University
>
>I learned to talk good at Ann Arbor. Us UM alumnuses talk at least as good
>as the guys up there at the cow college.
>
>I learned to write poetry pretty good too. In fact I took the "physics for
>poets" course ... even though some say that no poet really needs a physic.
>
>Which one rhymes?
>
>I got it on
>With Sean and Dawn
>Out on the lawn.
>
>I've carried on
>With Hillary Hahn
>And Genghis Khan.
>
>Or maybe both do? Or neither?
>
>(^_^)
>
>-- Doug


Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
preston at pilot.msu.edu
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