Heard on The Judges: "strewn" rhyming with "sewn"

[Wilson Gray]

I doubt it, "strewn' rhyming with "sewn" being a common variant that
I've been familiar with practically since birth. But, maybe it's just
a Texas thing or only a black thing or, perhaps, even only Texas-black
thing. You never know.

-Wilson

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu> wrote:
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> Unless "strown" is a dialectal variant of "strewn," we likely deal here =
> with a blend: "strewn" + "thrown"
> =20
> Gerald Cohen
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> Wilson Gray wrote, Mon 7/28/2008 9:04 AM:
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> Spoken by a fifty-ish, white woman from Lucerne Valley, CA, a Mojave
> Desert town, describing an illegal eviction:
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> "When I got home, I seen that [the landlady] had taken all of the
> stuff out of my apartment and _strewn_ [strown] it all over the yard!"
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> -Wilson
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