English in USA

[Alice Faber]

Laurence Horn wrote:
> 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...
>

Well, my parents still have dialup, so I doubt I'll be able to try it
out when I'm at their house for Thanksgiving. Oh, well.

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