----- Original Message ----- From: <MedCat7 at aol.com> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 9:32 AM Subject: lazy pronounciation > In a message dated 2/4/2005 9:20:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, Grady Brandt <gbrandt at Tampabayfederal.com> writes: > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: lazarus [mailto:lazarus33pjf at cox.net] > >> > >> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:35:51 -0700, you wrote: > >> > >> >Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > >> >> In a message dated 2/2/2005 5:54:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, lazarus > >> >> <lazarus33pjf at cox.net> writes: > >> >> > >> >>> Also, "pen" and "pin" should have distinctly different > >> >>> pronunciations. > >> > > >> >I wondered where these don't have distinctly different pronunciations. > >> > > >> > >> As Jose said, in the south they tend to blur a lot of these > >> pronunciations. > >> > >> They both are pronounced "pin" in the areas of the south I've lived. > >> > > > >I think that's because we southerners (I'm assuming you're referring the US > >South) tend to be lazy about our pronunciation anyway, particularly the > >vowels. > > > "Ya'll" "you all" "you guys" "all of you" > -C > And for large groups: "All y'all". Dave