Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 13:45:09 -0500

From: EJOHNSON[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSUVX2.MEMPHIS.EDU

Subject: Re: /z/ + /n/ = /d/ + /n/



I just saw a reference to a paper on this topic from 1959 (?) in the

secretary's report of the ADS bound with Harold Allen's "Semantic Confusion"

PADS volume. I don't have it with me right now.

Ellen JOhnson



From: IN%"ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu" "American Dialect Society" 9-OCT-1995 10:24:04.74

Subj: /z/ + /n/ = /d/ + /n/



"Bidniss" for "business" strikes me as distinctly Southern, but I just

heard (and noticed) a student tell other students, "There wadn't nothing

you could do about it." Is "wadn't" current elsewhere? Surely, it must

be. What other examples of /z/ to /d/ before a nasal are there? Are they

regional or general?







Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu