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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (83)	1/2/1998 12:32:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Respond to of 4710

Penni: Don't apologize. I think you are still in the area of interest for this thread. And thanks for the clarification of schwa. This term wasn't in use when I was a real student, although we did use the little backwards "e", at least in phonetic rendering of French sounds. The vowel sounds of le, de were represented by that symbol. Yes, it amazes me when I go back to VA and listen to my relatives. Hard to believe I also spoke that way! Although there are numerous southern dialects, I tend to categorize them into the "softer" ones, like Eastern and central VA, Georgia, SC, some parts of AL, and the "twangier" ones in the Appalachian chain. The latter ones marked by the more accentuated -r endings, while those in the VA type tend to swallow that terminal -r, as in "my bruthah". Impossible to represent orthographically. Have you ever read Faulkner? He does a better job with dialect than any author I have read. Jack