And I mostly "hear" you guys (that's Michigan-accent for "y'all") with my
undetectable-to-me "Michigan accent".
You should hear Tamara's broad Australian accent way down here :)
David
http://www.michigannative.com/ma_home.shtml
:)
Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA
alwen at i2k dot com
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From: "Jenny Brandis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 9:13 PM
Subject: [lace-chat] Re: pronunciation
> At 09:31 PM 5/30/2005 -0400, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
> > >I don't know about anyone else, but when I
At 07:13 PM 5/31/05 +0800, Jenny Brandis wrote:
>At 09:31 PM 5/30/2005 -0400, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
>> >I don't know about anyone else, but when I read the emails from the list,
>> >Tamara, Joy, Lynn, Pam, Joy and everyone else have all written them in a
>> >slight 'East End of London' accent becau
At 09:31 PM 5/30/2005 -0400, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
>I don't know about anyone else, but when I read the emails from the list,
>Tamara, Joy, Lynn, Pam, Joy and everyone else have all written them in a
>slight 'East End of London' accent because that's how I speak so that's how
>I read them.
And I
Lynn, This site is a hoot! Yes, lots of people around here DO talk
like that -- not so much the college-educated ones, but definitely
the clerks at "Walmart's"! (One addition: He wonders why it's "ink
pen". Undoubtedly that is a result of the immigration of factory
workers from the South, whe
"Jean Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I don't know about anyone else, but when I read the emails from the list,
>Tamara, Joy, Lynn, Pam, Joy and everyone else have all written them in a
>slight 'East End of London' accent because that's how I speak so that's how
>I read them.
And I mostly
Moving this to chat, as it has wandered away from lace:
Annette Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sylvie Nguyen wrote:
>>
>
>You're lucky - I'm often called Anita! My aunt is called Sylvia,
>but in the family she's often called Sylvie as
