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