Italian

[David Bergdahl]

DINIS wrote "Dialect forms which have had a similar fate (but which
better fit the definition suggested here) would include Jimmy Carter's
EYE-talian, for example."

I would think Carter's EYE-tal-yun is more similar to his EYE-ran for
ear-RAN, a choice of one of two GVS possibilities, as root vs rout for
<route>.

--db
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