[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: More Southern I think?

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

From: ameliagoldfeesh
| Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 09:02
| I can tell you exactly where the extra "R comes from: Boston!
| Haven't you heard of the Linguistical Law of Letter Conservation?
| Any "R" dropped in Boston-speak comes to southwest Iowa and makes
| its way further south.

[Lee]:
Okay, I can handle this...I think? <Grin>

[Goldfish]:
| I must say that I had never heard of "heighth" as being considered
| Southern though. Nearly everyone I know says it that way (although
| southwest Iowa, where I'm from, is accused of having more in common
| with Missouri/southern speak than the rest of the state).

[Lee]:
Well, "height" doesn't end with an "h", so all my kin and everyone else I
knew pronounced it "hite"...until I met my Honey and then some southern folk
and heard this sudden addition of an "h" at the end...Hmm--.

Oh well, guess us folk from the Nor-East just talk funny. <Grin>

Smiles, and have a great day.  It be raining here in NJ...again!

Lee :-)

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