eye dialect was RE: nekkid

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> quoted:
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> "eye dialect" refers to respelling of words to reflect their unmarked pronunciation (e.g. _wuz_, ... _uv_ for was, ... of)


Who was it who decided that these two pronunciations are "unmarked"?
Is the spelling _iz_ ever used as the eye-dialect pronunciation of
_is_? Is there a variety of English in which a citation-pronunciation
other than [Iz] exists, such that its speakers would be motivated to
use _iz_ in their representations of quoted speech to signal to the
reader that outgroup speech is intended?

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-Wilson
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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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