Date:  Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:23:31 -0800

From:  David Robertson <net091[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RISCY.SFCC.CTC.EDU>

Subject: Re: Come 'ere



   Every USA and Canadian dialect of English I've encountered drops the

"H" of 'come here' in the circumstances described. The vowel of 'come'

in this phrase also tends to reduce to schwa or zero, doesn't it? The

same is, I think, true of 'come on' etc.



   Dave