please put places lived history in signature (was merkins)

[Beverly Flanigan]

These are very common elisions in all English dialects, and they are well
attested in child language as well: witness 'nana (banana), etc.  Why do
you think they're more common in the UK?  Most of us on the ADS list are
American; non-Americans usually identify themselves as such.

At 08:35 PM 10/22/2006, you wrote:
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>>Subject:      Merkins--(origin in metanalysis)
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>>It is not uncommon in American English to weaken and drop unaccented vowels
>>from the first syllables of words, whether or not they are preceded by a
>>consonant, e.g., POLICE > P'LICE, ARRANGE > 'RANGE. etc.
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>I's say those pronunciations are quite uncommon in USA, but possibly not in
>UK.  You're from UK I gather.
>
>I'd like us all to put a line history of places lived like mine below in my
>signature.  I find many  responses I get are from non-American natives, even
>though this is "American" Dialect Society.
>
>Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
>See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.
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