Re: Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ - : etymology ?

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:31:34 GMT, John Atkinson
<johnacko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:WU_Mi.4898$H22.452@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in
sci.lang:

[...]

This is common in eye-dialect -- like <was> being spelled
<woz> to indicate a speaker of non-standard English, even
though <was> and <woz> are pronounced exactly the same
in all varieties of English.

Not true: many (most?) Americans have [wVz] for stressed
<was> and [wAz] for <woz>.

[...]

Brian
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