Anybody here noticed this anywhere? More Facebook

[Wilson Gray]

"Another trend [in Central Texas] is pronouncing the long a as a long e.
Examples: baby as beeby, came as ceeme, date, deet...Jake, Jeek...wait
weet..."

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-Wilson
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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

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