Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 19:42:56 -0500
From: Benjamin Barrett Gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GNN.COM
Subject: Re: Gutters
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 17:34:50 EST
From: Terry Lynn Irons t.irons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MOREHEAD-ST.EDU
"Gutters" is one of the regional words discussed by Kurath in
Chapter III of his Word Geography. In looking at this item in
LANCS records, I keep coming across a variant with a transcription
something like the following (No detail on vowel in second word):
[ li^id, traft]
Even though the most common response is gutters, this variant shows
up often. My question is, is this a variation on the pronunciation of
"eave trough" or is it some lexical variant? (Clear instances of
eaves trough do occur.) The closest lexical item I can think of
is "leave."
If "leave" comes to mind for you, "leaf trough" shouldn't be too far off.
yoroshiku
Benjamin Barrett