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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (1084)4/5/1998 4:30:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke  Respond to of 4711
 
Paul,

we tended to drop the rs

My Virginian "sistahs and brothuhs" still do that, and I lapse back into it when I visit with them. There's a grammatical or linguistic term (which escapes me) for the sort of overcorrection we get when people drop "r"s from where they ought to be and then put in some "r"s where they shouldn't be. The Bostonians are famous for calling Mr. Castro's country "Cuber" and The Peoples Republic of "Chiner". I worked with a Boston-raised hematologist who made both mistakes of overcorrection in the same word when he said "cah-sin-ohm-er" for carcinoma.

Jack



To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (1084)4/6/1998 12:17:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Respond to of 4711
 
This is one of the hidden principles of physics: Conservation of Consonants. Consonants were formed in the Big Bang, and their overall number has not changed in billions of years. They can only be moved around.
For every Bostonian who paahks his caaah, there's a Texan somwhere warshing earl off'n his driveway.


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