From SlashDot:

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 22 02:09:01 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> I'd plan on scooting out of there while they're still puzzling it out.

The smoothest move, no doubt!

BEW, _no doubt_ and _evidently_ are both common catch-terms in BE. At
one time, I thought that the stress-pattern, "eviDINTly," was a black
thang that you wouldn't understand. But, my current impression is the
stress is on "dVnt," whether the V be [E] or [I].

--
-Wilson
-----
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

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



More information about the Ads-l mailing list