Pronunciation question (from L. Urdang)

Wed May 30 02:20:22 UTC 2007

On 5/29/07, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I've heard "dId at nt" maybe once or twice, maybe. "dIdInt" in emphatic
> use seems normal enough to me. The most interesting version was a
> BE-styled emphatic from a character in an episode of _Law & Order_:
> "dI'Int" (apostrophe for glottal stop). Is this being heard much by
> those who listen in those circles? It's foreign to me.

Check the archives for a long thread on the topic in Nov. '04...

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0411c&L=ads-l#4

--Ben Zimmer

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