New Jersey Dialects

[Bethany K. Dumas]

You are correct, dinis - I reversed 'em. I would have to practice a lot to say
/-de/.

Beth'ny Kay

>===== Original Message From American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
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>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