Whooping, but not with an extension cord

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> the 'm "ing"?


That's right. This phenomenon occurs in Southern English and in most
varieties of Britspeak - including RP - in words of the -P at N type, like
"happen," "heaven," and "whippin' " It's also standard in German in words
like _hupen_ [hu:p'm] "blow the horn of a car" - as in the traffic-sign,
"Nicht Hupen" - cognate with English "whoop" [huwp], a pronunciation pretty
much obsolete in American English, having been replaced by some kind of
[wUp]-like sound], in the North, at least.
-- 
-Wilson
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