New Jersey Dialects

[Dennis R. Preston]

Bethany,

I think you mean "Not me" not "Me too." Alice said she had the latter
(the /e/ form). If you don't have an /i/ form I'm gone reassess where
you're from.

dInIs

>  >>>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.
>
>Thanks, Me too, It sounds really weird to me to hear /-de/.
>
>Bethany


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Dennis R. Preston
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        Asian and African Languages
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