Kregg vs. Craig

[Dennis R. Preston]

>'Urban East' is a sillniess i should never have uttered.

dInIs



>At 1:53 PM -0400 7/19/02, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>>Vowel conflaters (almost always laxers), having completed their work
>>before /r/, and well into it before /l/, are now moving on; pre /g/
>>appears to be their next stop on this road to perdition. The regional
>>distribution is not exactly known, but the process seems to be more
>>rampant in the urban East but productive in many other areas
>>(Mountain West, South) as well; the Midwest, in my opinion, lags in
>>this matter.
>>
>>dInIs (who, in his football days, always took the 'field,' not the 'filled')
>>
>This last is redolent of Pittsburgh (and maybe cheese-steak eaters to
>the east, whose "Iggles" sometimes take the filled against
>Pittsburgh's "Stillers"), but those "urban East"-type generalizations
>are odious, even if we all sound alike to you Midwesterners.  Those
>PA folks don't even reliably keep their Maries apart from their
>marries and merries, so it's not too surprising that they neutralize
>before /g/ and /l/.  Talk about your road to perdition.  We New
>Yorkers would never fall for that.
>
>L

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