CONtract/conTRACT

[Michael Newman]

>Good point larry. And may account for some "apparent southernisms" in
>northern speech. Maybe New York ain't southern after all (they got
>their own linguistic insecurity to deal with).

Considering the recent spreading of y'all (from AAVE evidently) to
the detriment of "you guys," it might be.
--
Michael Newman
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders
Queens College
Flushing, NY 11367