Dreckly

[Baker, John]

Speaking only from my own experience, it always sounded like "dreckly," not "treckly."


John Baker



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Subject: Re: Dreckly

Sometimes writers (for example, Mark Twain in _Pudd'nhead Wilson_), endeavoring to represent Southern speech (black and white), spell the word with initial t.  Presumably that's how it's heard.

--Charlie

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