New Jersey Dialects

[Alice Faber]

Bethany K. Dumas said:
>>particular feature they were picking at was a tendency (which I have no
>>knowledge if it's so or not) to pronounce the names of the days of the week
>>as "Mondee, Tuesdee" etc instead of "Monday, Tuesday".
>
>What's the difference?

/i/ vs /e/. I have the latter, and the former sounds distinctly
unnatural to me.
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