Date:  Tue, 19 Dec 1995 17:34:50 EST

From:  Terry Lynn Irons <t.irons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MOREHEAD-ST.EDU>

Subject: Gutters



"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."



Yuh hep 'preciated.



Terry Irons

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