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

[Joe Salmons]

Well, this is found far beyond NCS geographically.

From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 12:24 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Subject: Re: BAG/BEG merger/shift? Linguistics in the comics
If it's a version of the Northern Cities shift, it's not a merger, right?
(Whether it's a pull chain or a push chain, all the affected vowels in the
relevant space are on the move.)

On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 1:13 PM Joe Salmons <
000008f18d0e0c45-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> Potentially in the Upper Midwest and Pacific Northwest. I’d also look at
> lit at ‘bag raising’ in Washington state.
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> Subject: Re: BAG/BEG merger/shift? Linguistics in the comics
> 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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