Re: Language Subtag Registration

My response is below!
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De : Ietf-languages <[email protected]> de la part de Kent Karlsson <[email protected]>
Envoyé : mardi 21 août 2018 18:37
À : John Cowan; Hugh Paterson
Cc : ietf-languages; Nicholas Felker; Doug Ewell
Objet : Re: [Ietf-languages] Language Subtag Registration


Den 2018-08-21 22:14, skrev "John Cowan" <[email protected]<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=cowan%40ccil.org&data=02%7C01%7C%7C2d026df70b91438b512b08d607b7ca1b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636704883276396201&sdata=oRbqu%2F30%2BNPmvYU8T0YB2OOWlp0mua07M0RGpncFy1o%3D&reserved=0>>:

If it were necessary to distinguish between variants spoken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, Mississippi, philapa and philams could be used.

For Philadelphia (from Wikipedia):

Places
United States

  *   Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, a county coterminous with the city of the same name
     *   Center City, Philadelphia , the old city of Philadelphia before consolidation with the county
  *   Philadelphia, Illinois
  *   Philadelphia, Indiana
  *   Philadelphia, Mississippi
  *   Philadelphia (town), New York
     *   Philadelphia (village), New York
  *   Philadelphia, Tennessee

But for Philly (as a place), only one:

Philly is a common informal name for Philadelphia, a major city in Pennsylvania, United States.

But that only one is listed may be a flaw in Wikipedia.


/Kent K

Yes true there is only one "philly" that I know of and it is Philadelphia and that is the best variant name IMO: https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=tJV9W5CpLMSYzwKV6LjoBQ&q=philly&oq=philly&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0j0i131k1j0l2j0i131k1j0l5.717.1870.0.2916.6.6.0.0.0.0.299.583.2-2.2.0....0....1.1.64.psy-ab..4.2.578....0.d63W3W9ue44

(But while I can recognize a Pennsylvania accent I am not sure I know what a Philadelphia accent is, I really don't; does it have some Scots and working class sounds in it? as says Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_English [I remember some  of this in the standard Pennsylvania accent]. Also what about German? or none of that? German varieties are still spoken in some parts of Pennsylvania near Hamburg/Lenhartsville; I was only in Pennsylvania a year and never thank goodness in Philly but I also knew two teachers from Pennsylvania in my high school  days & one had the standard Pennsylvania accent [he was I believe Pennsylvania "Deutsch"] and one who was in her past a newspaper editor may have had a very faint Pennsylvania accent mixed with a non-descript nationwide accent and with a bit of S-Central Florida accent which has a faint drawl but not really a drawl in any southern sense.
Today I understand there are many immigrant communities in Philly: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/how-a-corner-of-southwest-philadelphia-became-little-africa.html)



Best,
--C. E. Whitehead
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