New Jersey Dialects

[Dennis R. Preston]

Not if you're announcing the big truck rally over to the fairgrounds
on SUN-DAY! I can get me a /de/ out of that easy.

dInIs



>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>
>=====
>>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
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic,
        Asian and African Languages
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