southmore

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 20, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> I'm going to let the spelling alone, since I have no idea how people
> who say [sauf], etc., spell it,...

the spelling would be relevant as an indication of the analysis that
these speakers have for [saufmo(r)].  do they think its first element
is the name of a compass point?

i'm still totally unclear about what role hypercorrection is supposed
to be playing in all this.

arnold

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