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roboromantic · 15 days ago

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I was wondering if saying "liable to" instead of "likely to" was a Southern/Appalachian thing since I've always said "liable" with 2 syllables exclusively in that context

it looks like 1) it's not and 2) other people from outside the South pronounce it with two syllables in this context as well, which is fascinating to me

what IS very Southern is the intense monopthongization that happens when I say it that way, lmao

#normally I'd transcribe it with ipa but it's 5am and I hate vowels so.#basically 'standard' American English would pronounce it “lie-bull”#but I say 'lah-bull'#'lah' isn't a good transcription either but I think people are familiar enough with I->Ah to get the general idea #my accent isn't strong enough for me to monophthongize /ai/ all the time #but it shore does come out in full force whenever I order a Cheerwine‚ lmaoooooo #(yes I deliberately spelled it shore to further emphasize the accent)#language stuff

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