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 ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org