nekkid

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> Wilson, [nEkId] is, of course, my normal pronunciation of "naked" too, so I find "eye dialect" an appropriate disignation of the spelling "nekkid"--like the spelling "nigra." Â But I suppose the point is that each of those pronunciations, with the corresponding spelling, has become separately lexified, functioning as a way to derogate various Southern dialects (and their speakers).

Well, that's all right, I reckon. Now, if there were only a way to
delete from the AmE-speaking language-organ the abominable reanalysis,
_butt-_nekkid!;-)
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-Wilson
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