sammich

[Dennis R. Preston]

David,

Well, you got your assimilators and your non-assimilators. Why any
self-respecting person would like to stick an alveolar in front of a
labiovelar is beyond me. It's you people who don't assimilate who are
driving this country to ruin.

dInIs





>American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on Friday, January 21,
>2005 at 9:02 AM -0500 wrote:
>>
>>For speakers for whom the velar wins out, "sangwich' emerges; for us
>>labial champions, it's 'samwich,' surely the input for the next stage
>>'sammich,' that last clearly the pronunciation of the ignernt.
>
>But what about ignernts who say "sanwich"?  Mine is clearly not labial.
>
>Regards,
>David
>
>barnhart at highlands.com


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