Re: American Dutch dialects

From: tgpedersen
Message: 63530
Date: 2009-03-01

> I've often wondered if the aberrant pronunciation of <often> with a
> /t/ sprang from Midwestern Germans who learned English from hyper-
> corrective schoolmarms.

In this case more than likely helped by the fact that the
corresponding German word is 'oft'.


Torsten