Heard on [adult swim]: "Japan" > [dZei p&n]

[Bill Palmer]

You would not hear that today, Wilson.  Wake County NC is practically the
exclusive province of relocated Yankees.

Bill P
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From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 1:04 AM
Subject: Heard on [adult swim]: "Japan" > [dZei p&n]


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> Spoken by a Squidbilly, according to the story line, a native of the
> North-Georgia hill country:
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> "Sushi? That's made over yonder in JAY-pan."
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> The only other time that I've heard "Japan" pronounced this way, it
> was spoken by a step-relative of mine from Wake County, NC.
>
> No, I'm not assuming that someone playing the voice of a cartoon
> character is truly a representative speaker of any real local dialect
> of Georgia. But, I'm just saying, you know? This isn't the first time
> that I've heard _Japan_ pronounced as "JAY-pan" and, the other time,
> the speaker really *was* a genuine local yokel in his home county.
>
> This same voice-actor pronounced "out here" as [aut tSi at r]. I would
> have expected [au tSi at r]. But, of course, youneverknow.
> --
> -Wilson
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