flay / flea (and other "ea" words)

[Randy Alexander]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Benjamin Zimmer <
bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Randy
> Alexander<strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> And I suppose in the South Midland they'd add "measure pleasure
> treasure".
> >
> >
> > What about leisure?
>
> Sure, but I thought we were sticking to words spelled with <ea>.


Just curious as to how they would say that, rhyming it with their "measure",
or putting it with their /i/ set.

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Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China
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