[Ads-l] Query about dialectal "warsh" (wash)

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Dec 7, 2014, at 8:34 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> arnold, isn't Mary Louise Kean from Warshington, DC?
> 
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
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>> 
>> Sometimes the "intrusive R" in "warsh" is called characteristic of St.
>> Louis, but it is also called characteristic of Pittsburgh and Baltimore
>> and some other places. On-line I see it called characteristic of Midland
>> dialect (US) in general. Also "Midwest". Also Western/Northwestern US.
>> Also "Ohio Valley".  I've heard it plenty in PA, OH, IL. I've heard it
>> in Detroit, and I've heard _about_ it in Detroit without anybody
>> suggesting that it wasn't/isn't usual there (is it?). I also see it
>> mentioned in connection with West Somerset (UK). Probably there are some
>> remarks somewhere in the ADS-L archive.

i'm not sure.  is she a "warsh" speaker?

arnold

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