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[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

> Like "twice" as [twaIst]: Â Isn't that how everybody says it?
>

IME, East Texans who use [twaIst] - e.g. all of my relatives still
living in the ArkLaTex and all those older than I am who live anywhere
else, even in Marin County, CA - also use pronunciations like "once"
as [w^nst] and "dose" [doust].

That's mostly everybody, seem like to me. ;-) Heard tell might could
be some other folk out yonder be steady misspeaking, though.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
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