Another Dialect Notes 1909 note

[Wilson Gray]

The author notes that

"_p_ has become [voiced] in

_Ba[b]tis_,

etc."


You'd be surprised, if you watched The Judges, how many SE/BE speakers today say

_la[b]top_.


Before I caught on, I wondered how a ruined "lab top," presumably
located in the college chem lab - hence, a problem for the school -
could have become a civil case between two students.
--
-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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