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

On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:10:20 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
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in sci.lang:

On Oct 7, 12:07 am, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:31:34 GMT, John Atkinson
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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>.

What does that mean? <woz> doesn't represent a word of
Standard English, so Americans don't have any
pronunciation "for" it.

Piffle. Ask a literate American how to pronounce the
nonsense word <woz>; the odds that he will rhyme it with
<Oz> are excellent.

[...]

Brian
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