Date:  Wed, 19 Nov 1997 11:21:04 -0800
From:  Peter Richardson <prichard[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LINFIELD.EDU>
Subject: Re: /er/ > /ar/ (was: Merzouri)

>With apologies for straying still a bit further from American dialects,
>the same development has occurred in some Dutch dialects (e.g. standard
>kerk [kErIk] 'church' becomes [karIk]) and in some Low Saxon ("Low
>German") dialects in Germany.

Double apologies from me. Peter McGraw mentions the Dutch [karIk], to
which I would append Swabian Karrich (for Kirche 'church').

Peter R.