Date:  Tue, 10 Oct 1995 00:49:02 -0700

From:  Rima & Kim McKinzey <rkm[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SLIP.NET>

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



At 11:24 AM 10/9/95, Wayne Glowka wrote:

>"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?

>

I've only heard "bidniss" in the South and from Southerners. But now that

you mention it, I have heard "wadn't" here in Northern California.



Rima