Date:  Mon, 9 Oct 1995 08:39:00 -0700

From:  Mary Bucholtz <bucholtz[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU>

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



I'm glad you asked. I say "idn't," "wadn't" and "doedn't" in casual

speech (I was born and raised in rural NW Indiana). I never noticed it

(some sociolinguist I am) until a Southerner pointed it out to me and said

Elvis Presley does this in a movie in order to sound like a hick. Since

then I've noticed my whole family says it but I haven't been back to

Indiana to check this with anyone else.



Mary Bucholtz

Department of Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley

bucholtz[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]garnet.berkeley.edu