Dueling dialects

[Mullins, Bill]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis R. Preston [mailto:preston at MSU.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 3:23 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Dueling dialects
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> Are you sure this is not the well-known southern shift of
> /aw/ to /aew/ with r-coloration of the resulting vowel (often
> somewhat monophthongized in southern speech)?
>
> dInIs

Beats the hell out of me.  I'm an electrical engineer, and don't speak
monophthongization.

> >Maury County, TN is pronounced halfway between "merry" and "Murray",
> >maybe a little closer to "Murray". Blount County, TN is "blunt".
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