Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 22:39:18 -0500

From: mftcf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU

Subject: Re: eye dialect



Question: When you encounter "what" in a text spelled "whut"--

is that eye dialect or does that have some sort of phonetic reality?

To me the "u" simply represents a schwa and hence its eye dialect. But

is that just my perspective?



Tim Frazer