New Jersey Dialects
Ed Keer
edkeer at YAHOO.COM
Thu Oct 21 13:26:28 UTC 2004
My dad, West Philadelphia, does this. I imagine South
Jersians do as well. Haven't heard it in North Jersey.
Ed
--- "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
> I was on a business trip to Ft. Monmouth a few years
> ago, and the local
> "morning crew" deejays were making fun of south
> Jersey speech. The
> 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".
>
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