Ah--I rarely visit dictionary.com and didn't recognize its influence. For me "eye" and the -i- in "tine" differ; former is farther back. Fair about non-IPA representations; I noticed while sounding out these two bits because "uh" is lower than schwa for me (noted that you've typed "schwa-ish").
Possibly the Intermountain/SW part, yes. One of my best friends--now a long-distance NMSU employee--has gained a bit of a Southwestern drawl, which sits oddly with the clipped prairie and Waterloo-influenced Canadian of her early childhood and is thus really obvious; without having visited her, I doubt I'd be able to place any version of Southwestern speech. But here, probably it's mostly dictionary.com, which is legitimately Midwestern-weighted. :))
"Y'uns" would be handy, yes. I've gained "y'all" studiedly for when "you guys" simply won't work for one reason or another, but "y'all" is only because of lack of auditor's ambiguity.
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Date: 2013-09-04 05:27 am (UTC)Possibly the Intermountain/SW part, yes. One of my best friends--now a long-distance NMSU employee--has gained a bit of a Southwestern drawl, which sits oddly with the clipped prairie and Waterloo-influenced Canadian of her early childhood and is thus really obvious; without having visited her, I doubt I'd be able to place any version of Southwestern speech. But here, probably it's mostly dictionary.com, which is legitimately Midwestern-weighted. :))
"Y'uns" would be handy, yes. I've gained "y'all" studiedly for when "you guys" simply won't work for one reason or another, but "y'all" is only because of lack of auditor's ambiguity.