Date:  Tue, 9 Aug 1994 08:20:54 -0500

From:  Alan Slotkin <ARS7950[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TNTECH.EDU>

Subject: Re: eye dialect



Regarding Tim Frazer's question re eye dialect. Whut seems the same as what

to me, just as wuz for was indicates the normal pronunciation, yet at the

same time makes the utterance appear more rustic, more uneducated.



Alan Slotkin