ext_12904 ([identity profile] eub.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] eub 2011-07-10 07:35 am (UTC)

It is possible that Fisher *was* giving a phonetic transcription of a rural Vermont pronunciation c. 1900 as precisely as she could without IPA. If there is a New England speech that de-schwas towards /ɪ/ that might bump up the odds on that hypothesis.
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