A nice Southernism . . .

[LanDi Liu]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky
<zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
>> One student included in her introduction the following clause:
>> "Once I was
>> old enough to fin for myself . . . ."  A Southern belle just
>> swimming along
>> in the school!
>
> entertaining, but just ear spelling (raising of [E] before [n], final
> t-deletion), probably from someone who had rarely seen the word in
> print.

I hope you mean final d-deletion. ; )

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Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China
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