English in USA

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:32 PM -0500 11/14/06, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 11/14/2006 02:29 PM, Paul Johnston wrote:
>>It's not W CT either--or, I'd be very surprised if it was.
>
>It's not "Eenglish" in NYC, at least not when I was growing up
>there.  So I too would be surprised if it's W CT, that being NY
>Yankee country. :-)
>
It's not "Eenglish" in South Central CT either, or on www.m-w.com,
where the speaker quite clearly renders [INlIS], rhyming with, well,
Singlish.  Of course, I tested this on a computer in South Central
CT; maybe it's different on computers in W CT...

LH

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