Interesting. I noticed in your previous message you referred to a schwa sound occurring at the end of the word "thing." Did I misunderstand, or were you referring to a Tennessee pronunciation creating one? DD Farms wrote: > At 08:38 AM 6/23/2006, WANDA VANGOOR wrote: > >Yep--grew up with it (Kentucky and Texas) and still use it a lot! > >"It's a whole nother thing" is the equivalent of "It's a whole > >different thing." And none of us would ever have said "It's another > >whole thing." > > DD: From the hills of East Tennesse, and all over the south in the > 1930s on. A few more syllables tucked in, or omitted, but I am more > used to, "Tis a whole nother thing." or, "Itzuh whole nother > thing." In the dialects I grew up with stuck a lot of schwas in. > Whole, nother and thing would end in a schwa. "Thing" has three syllables. > > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html > and select "Join or leave the list" > > Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/