"Gwine"

Paul Johnston paul.johnston at WMICH.EDU
Tue Mar 1 20:11:04 UTC 2005


Yes, you're right about "goin"  (monosyllabic) as a source.  Labials &
velars in SW English project a /w/ after the consonant, so you get "bwile"
for boil and "bwy" for boy.  Both of these occur in Caribbean creoles.  I
don't know if either made it to these shores--bile sounds more usual in
American vernaculars to me than bwile does.

Yours,
Paul Johnston



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