Date:    Wed, 13 May 1998 13:39:13 EDT
<br>From:    RonButters <RonButters[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
<br>Subject: CaRIBbean (was Beijing /j/)
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<br>DMLance writes:
<br><<in some dialects of Mexican Spanish there is alternation between -sh- and
<br>-ch-, but the gringos who say 'mashete' wouldn't be imitating the 'munsho'
<br>dialect [dialectal pronunciation of 'mucho'].>>
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<br>Along the same lines, are there any Caribbean dialects in which <Caribbean> is
<br>pronounced with the accent on the second syllable, or is CaRIBbean entirely a
<br>US/Canada/European affectation? (What I generally hear from the natives is
<br>CarriBEan--also the first pronunciation given in the first dictionary I looked
<br>at this afternoon.)
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