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Amarantha
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Melba's Jammin' > wrote in news:barbschaller-
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> In article >,
> "KW" <keith_warrennospamatallteldotnet> wrote:
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>> My deep south (Central Alabama) grandparents often fought over this very
>> thing. Memaw claimed the long a variant (Croppie)
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> Errr, long a? Wouldn't that make it a CRAY-pee?
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I thought long 'a' would be 'aa', and 'ay' a dipthong (really 'ei').
But I'm only a wannabe amateur linguist, and could stand to be corrected
K
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