Query: dialectal pronunciation of the type "EYE-talian" for "Italian"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Oct 2 00:29:03 UTC 2013


On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> EYE-diological.  POTUS


Clearly, he was so overcome with emotion that he lost track of the fact the
his dialect was going to be critiqued by white people.





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