beaner

[Mark Mandel]

On 6/11/07, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> In BE, from Texas to California, at least, the everyday term for
> anyone perceived to be a member of any Spanish-speaking community
> whatsoever, is "Spanish." The term for a member of any
> Portuguese-speaking community, is "Portuguee" [poT at gi], even in East
> Texas, where you wouldn't expect there to be enough people of
> Portuguese-speaking ancestry to engage the attention of us black East
> Texans.


Wilson, is that [T] for  a palato-alveolar affricate, "ch"?

m a m

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org