--- In [email protected], cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_reply@> > wrote: > . You feel the grimace on your face don't chya? > > > > Never before seen that "eye-dialectish" form written like that. > By googling, at least these spellings can be found: > > doncha, dontcha, donchya, dontchya > > That phrase is also a rather nice, IMO, example of sandhi > in English. In most cases sandhi in Sanskrit is an instance > of a total or partial regressive assimilation, which, amongst > a couple of other things, seems to have happened in 'doncha', etc. > > I guess the aspiration of 't' in 'don´t' has gradually become > stronger, eventually "transforming" to > a palatal affricate, due to 'y' in 'you' (ya) being a > palatal semivowel? And stuff.>>
Maybe, but mostly just the Scottish accent coming in to play. You would never say "doncha, dontcha, donchya, or dontchya" in Scotland. Bad form old boy. OffWorld
