Pronunciation trumps spelling

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:04 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> WG: <<<bag_  legs =85 i.e. back legs>>>
> WB: A precious example of external sandhi. How much more hidden phonetic
> phenomena could be collected if only Everyman could express himself in IPA
> on the internet?

I kinda wonder about the pronunciation the vowel, too. I have an R&B
record where the singer says that he's known only "a bleg day, a bleg
night," since his baby been gone.

--
-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