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echo: english_tutor
to: DALLAS HINTON
from: PAUL QUINN
date: 2019-11-22 09:27:00
subject: Patent shoes

Hi! Dallas,

On 11/21/2019 02:53 PM, you wrote to Alexander Koryagin:

 DH>>> Interesting -- are there other words which in Kentucky lose their
 DH>>> ending "t" sound?

 AK>> Cabernet? ;)

 DH> But...there's no "t" in "moonshine"!

Nor 'corn mash'.  OTOH we know what the sound of the base word means. Back
woods folk probably don't.

Cheers,
Paul.

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