Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 18:10:12 -0500

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

Subject: Re: Of Cats and Eye Dialect



On Thu, 11 Aug 1994, Natalie Maynor wrote:



Re eye dialect: I do consider spellings like "whut" and "wuz" eye dialect,

even though they're artificial in that the spelling doesn't really represent

(to me) a different pronunciation.



To me, that's a definition of eye dialect, and I think thats what it is

in the Bowdre and Ives essays, which I'm too indolent (today, anyway) to

look up even tough they sit about 4 feet from where i am writing.



Tim