Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 19:11:20 -0500

From: Dan Goodman goodman[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FREENET.MSP.MN.US

Subject: elementary questions



Some questions which are probably elementary:



1) Is there a term in between rhotic and nonrhotic? (I pronounce only

the second r in "partridge" but both r's in "airport".)



2) Is there any guide to American AND Canadian varieties of English?

That is, one which doesn't assume all dialects stop bang at the political

border.



3) Is there any guide to _when_ geographical varieties of English took

more or less their present forms? For example, the Metropolitan New York

dialect was probably once close enough to the Hudson Valley dialect that

an outsider wouldn't have been able to hear the difference.



Dan Goodman