Date:    Mon, 29 Jun 1998 08:39:31 +0000
<br>From:    Peter McGraw <pmcgraw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LINFIELD.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: California -ing
<br>
<br>I seem to have heard this as an idiolectal variant all my life, so it
<br>never occurred to me that it was regional.  But I grew up in California
<br>and Oregon and now live in Oregon, so I can't be sure I've heard it
<br>outside of the West Coast.  I can attest that it's alive and well in
<br>Oregon and has been since my childhood 40-50 years ago.  I associate it
<br>with children's speech, as if it's something most people eventually
<br>outgrow--though I haven't a shred of actual evidence for this.
<br>
<br>Peter
<br>
<br>On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:57:18 EDT "(Dale F. Coye)" <Dfcoye[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
<br>wrote:
<br>
<br>> I know some people here in NJ who use EEN for -ing, but they have
<br>> Southern California parents.   What's interesting to me about this form
<br>> is that I believe it has the dental nasal rather than the velar, but I
<br>> don't think anyone would write it with the apostrophe (-in') and I
<br>> don't think it is stigmatized like older /-In/
<br>>
<br>> Dale Coye
<br>> The College of NJ
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<br>Peter A. McGraw
<br>Linfield College
<br>McMinnville, Oregon
<br>pmcgraw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]linfield.edu
<br>