NY accent is dying out?

[Michael Newman]

Uh oh, I'd better really check the hyphenation in my in-book progress, or I'll get it in the reviews!



Michael Newman
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Queens College/CUNY
michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu



On Jan 22, 2012, at 6:51 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Michael Newman
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>> In my in progress book
>
> Would it have killed you to write
>
> "In my in-progress book ..."
>
> ?
>
> I'm not even asking for
>
> "In my book in progress ..."
>
> .
>
> I acknowledge that that would be asking for too much. And I realize
> that an extra nanosecond of processing time should not be a big deal
> between friends.
>
> --
> -Wilson
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