[Ads-l] BAG/BEG merger/shift? Linguistics in the comics

[Paul A Johnston]

Where in the US to you get this merger?  it's really common in  Northern Ireland.  You also get "bayg" (diphthongised) types there, and that i've heard in TX, TN and AR.

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