End of ADS-L Digest - 28 Nov 1993 to 29 Nov 1993

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There are 27 messages totalling 493 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. th/dh (6)

 2. "Rock 'n Roll"

 3. egg-aig

 4. Rock'n Roll

 5. Half Past the Hour (10)

 6. song

 7. sh/zh

 8. Quarter to/till/of the Hour

 9. noon and points around it (2)

 10. quarter of

 11. loss of dialect distinctiveness

 12. rock n roll



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Date:  Mon, 29 Nov 1993 23:38:57 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET>

Subject: Re: th/dh



    On vl/vd <th> contrast, for some people, the genitive singular vs

plural of a few words work: mouth's - mouths, death's - deaths; more general:

wreath's - wreaths

    Which reminds me, has anyone been noticing the demise of the vl/vd

singular:plural contrast in <house>:<houses>? I suspect it comes in part

because there is no orthographic reinforcement, as in <wolf>:<wolves>. I

notice it mostly in Northeasterners, having first encountered it in a New

Yorker. Maybe it is an immigrant substratum effect, at least in origin.

        --Rudy Troike