dialect change?

[Duane Campbell]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:27:53 -0500 joshua <nerd_core at EXCITE.COM> writes:

> when people sing, they pronounce words differently (they drop
> consonants, substitute phonemes, etc.)  doing this isn't technically
> a dialect change, so what would we call it?

Not directly on point, but related.

Back in the 50s and 60s, Fred Waring (actually it was probably Roy
Ringwald, his arranger) developed a phonetic notation for lyrics for
choral music. All the published Fred Waring sheet music had the regular
lyrics, but printed below them was a phonetic version.

Anyway, if it is a dialect, it has a formal written form.

D