English in USA

[Paul A Johnston, Jr.]

Oh, "eenglish" is around--I associate it with parts of the Lower N and Upper S (along with "Anglish"
in the latter area)--probably the same regions which allow "feesh"--[it's a raising/tensing before high
consonants).  But it's really regionally restricted, and NOT in either Network Dialect or the usual
supposed sources of it.  Beverly, do you get it in S OH?  I've heard it from people from S IN, S IL and
KY.
It's not W CT either--or, I'd be very surprised if it was.

Paul Johnston

----- Original Message -----
From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:12 pm
Subject: Re: English in USA

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> Bill notes than English is also pronounced "Anglish," which is to say,
> "Ang lish." An NYC friend of mine of North-Carolinian [why
> "Carolinian" and "Alabamian"? The latter may be dying out, given that
> I've seen "Alabaman" in print.] extraction was once insulted at a job
> interview by being asked, "How can you expect to get a job *teaching*
> English, when you can't even *pronounce* it?"
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> He didn't get much sympathy from me. This was the same jerk who
> laughed at *my* Anglish:
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> Ha! Ha! You say "ahtomatic." I say "awtomatic."
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> -Wilson
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> > > Here in Tennessee I often hear what you might spell
> > > "eenglish," but, by golly,  _I_ still say "inglish."
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> > >   JL
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> > And in some parts, you'll hear it called "Anglish".
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