dialect in the comics

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Ronald Butters <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
> I think the onset is more the vowel of "dead" than "Dade" but it is definitely a diphthong with more of an [I] offglide than a schwa.
>

That also feels right to me. We'd probably need a machine and Google
Maps to pin down all of the acceptable variants.

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-Wilson
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