origin of dese dem dose in NYCE

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Feb 14 02:13:10 UTC 2012


At 2/13/2012 08:43 PM, Paul Johnston wrote:
>Some of the source dialects (North Hollandic) had /sk/, as New Yorkers have.

Ah.  As I, an ex New Yorker, do.  I have no idea when I picked it up,
but it's how I would say it today.

Joel

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