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