Re: Language Subtag Registration

Philadelphia's as a culture has evolved from a variety of cultures, with a
mix of common European and African-American. The distinct language contains
influences from Irish, Italian, German, and African-American sources.

When speaking of Philly as a sub-tag, it would not be distinct to the city
center but encapsulate the neighboring regions of the western Poconos,
southern New Jersey, and northern Delaware. The regional variant would best
fit within "Philly" as a name.

-Nick

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 12:14 PM CE Whitehead <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> [email protected]
>
>

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