Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 12:34:19 CST

From: salikoko mufwene mufw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU

Subject: Re: [El[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nojz]



In Message Mon, 28 Feb 1994 11:42:00 MST,

BBOLING%UNMB.BITNET[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]vma.cc.nd.edu writes:



In a posting sent earlier today, which I inadvertantly deleted, the

native pronunciation of "Illinois" with initial [E] was mentioned. Here is a ni

ce early attestation of this pronunciation. It occurs in a letter of an

Ulster immigrant who had the pronunciation only from what he had heard in

Philadelphia (indicating a formerly widespread pronunciation with [E]--

and probably final [z] too, since his spelling is largely phonetic): "hee

never Stoped till hee went to the Steate of Elinoys and he is living there

att the present time" (letter of December 11, 1850).



Bruce D. Boling

University of New Mexico



Are square brackets in this message used in more than one way? Does [E]

stand for graphic "e" or phonetic [E]? I seem to have missed the beginning

of the discussion. Should the graphic "E" in "Elinoys" be read as phonetic

[E] (epsilon)?

Salikoko S. Mufwene

Linguistics, U. of Chicago

s-mufwene[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uchicago.edu

312-702-8531