English in USA

[Tom Zurinskas]

I've lived in NJ for many years.  It's ~eeng and ~eenk there as well as all
over.  The thing is the "ing" is the site spelling of ~eeng, so folks write
ingland for England.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.





>From: Douglas Dee <AmateurLinguist at AOL.COM>
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>Subject: Re: English in USA
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:35:49 EST
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>Here in New Jersey, I definitely hear the "short i" in the first syllable
>of
>"English."
>
>I seem to recall a similar issue came up on Lingust List a while back.
>
>Paraphrasing liberally from my imperfect memory:
>
>A teacher wrote in to say, "Here's an odd thing, my students have 'short i'
>instead of 'ee' in 'English.'  Is this some regional dialect feature or
>what?"
>
>A whole bunch of people replied, saying, "No, YOU'RE the one with the
>regional dialect feature.  Your students' 'short i' is the
>normal/general/typical
>pronunciation in the US."
>
>Doug
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