Re: regional accents [was: Re: WCBS-News racist towards Irish?]

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From: jwg
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 14:20

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In article <Cqq3vE.ILp@cbnewse.cb.att.com> ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (ronald.h.davis) writes:
   hmmm, if you speak like a person from the midwest, do you say:

	   "what's going on?"

	   "the everyready bunny keeps going on, and on, and on..."

   or:

	   "what's going aahn?"

	   "the everyready bunny keeps going aahn, and aahn, and aahn..."

   as do a lot of midwest speakers from places like chicago, detroit,
   milwaukee, etc.


Ah, quite right, UPPER midwest.  Down here in the low-to-mid midwest, we
say on, not aahn.

jim grey
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From: jwg@SEDV1.acd.com (jwg)
Subject: Re: regional accents [was: Re: WCBS-News racist towards Irish?]
In-Reply-To: ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com's message of Wed, 1 Jun 1994 14:49:53 GMT
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