More overcorrection

[Wilson Gray]

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>I've heard "ballard" several times from white Southerners of varying ages.
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>JL

I recommend that no attempt be made to show them the error of their ways. ;-)

But seriously, folks, why is it that people whose dialect is
otherwise r-less say things like ballard, jurdge, murch, and even
things like "such" = "search," but "search" = "such."

-Wilson Gray

>Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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>"Ballards," title of a 1962 album by the Texas bluesman, Charles
>"Good-Time Charlie" Brown.
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>This particular overcorrection is used in speech as well as in
>writing. I once advised a friend of mine, likewise a black native of
>Texas, that the word is [bael at d], not [bael at rd]. I should have kept
>my advice to myself. Some people you just can't talk to.
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>-Wilson Gray
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