Magnolia Mouth, Zero Plurals, and Cluster Simplification (minicast) - 22 July 2009

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🗓️ 22 July 2009

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An Alabama high-school teacher observes that one of his fellow teachers tends to write words that should be plural as singular, such as 'I graded all 50 test' instead of 'I graded all 50 tests.' The reason for this locution has to do with some interesting features of Southern English. -- Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time: Email: [email protected] Phone: United States toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673 London +44 20 7193 2113 Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771 Site: http://waywordradio.org. Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/ Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/ Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/ Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2009, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:14.4	He's noticed that one of his fellow teachers
1:16.5	tends to write words that should be plural as singular.
1:20.0	For example, she might say, I graded all 50 tests, T E S T, instead of I graded all 50 tests, T E S, S.
1:29.4	Why does she do that?
1:30.7	She's not stupid, right? As Drew finds finds out it's not a simple mistake to make. It
1:36.1	comes from certain interesting features of Southern English. I was called to ask you
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