User talk:BrineStans/Archives - 2016

Calutron

No, really. The Calutron article is indeed the main article for the Y-12 Project. It covers the research, design, building construction and operation. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:35, 10 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tennessee State Route 30

Hi! I've created an article state route 30. :) --ACase0000 (talk) 18:58, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@ACase0000: Thanks, it looks good. I'll add a route description and a ref shortly. BrineStans (talk) 20:51, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

Two years ago ...

Southern Appalachia
... you were recipient no. 932 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:02, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Three years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:56, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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DeFord Bailey

Re: your recent edit: While DeFord Bailey is mostly known for being a harmonica player, he also recorded songs as a singer so (leaving the Musicians Cat intact) I have added the Singers Cat back into the article. Shearonink (talk) 15:10, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. He should be in both categories, then. BrineStans (talk) 15:12, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Categories sometimes tend to confuse me - for instance, I think that Songwriters (and Harmonica players etc) are child cats of Musicians and so having both on an article is redundant...but I don't know for sure. Shearonink (talk) 15:39, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Appalachian + Intrusive R

Hello, sir. There seems to be a debate on the "intrusive R" in "warsh." I will start by saying this r technically is intrusive. And that there is a page called Linking and intrusive R. However, the page Linking and intrusive R refers to a specific linking phenomenon. In order to explain this Intrusive R, I have to explain Linking R first. Here is the definition from the page:

In many non-rhotic accents, words historically ending in /r/ (as evidenced by an ⟨r⟩ in the spelling) may be pronounced with [r] when they are closely followed by another morpheme beginning with a vowel sound. So tuner amp may be pronounced [ˈtjuːnər æmp].

The phenomenon of intrusive R is an overgeneralizing reinterpretation[11][12] of linking R into an r-insertion rule that affects any word that ends in the non-high vowels /ə/, /ɪə/, /ɑː/, or /ɔː/;[13] when such a word is closely followed by another word beginning in a vowel sound, an [r] is inserted between them, even when no final /r/ was historically present.

Other pages typically make a distinction between this Intrusive R and the intrusive r in "warsh" by referring to the latter as an epenthetic r, e.g. Baltimore accent and Western Pennsylvania English. And that's why I would rather use the term epenthetic r to describe the r in "warsh." Anyway, before making any edit of the sort, I wish to hear your response, first. Thank you.LakeKayak (talk) 17:00, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If you suspect the linked page is incorrect, then you'll need to provide a source noting the intrusive r is epenthetic. BrineStans (talk) 18:14, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have a source, but I need you to verify it: https://books.google.com/books?id=UFBuVbL8qiwC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=epenthesis+%2B+warsh&source=bl&ots=qko-RvnXYj&sig=0CZsMWitQ2kR6GX8xhG71MHG90o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRl7XMw4bRAhXpr1QKHc1iAoYQ6AEIMzAE#v=onepage&q=epenthesis%20%2B%20warsh&f=false.

That appears to be a valid source. It doesn't mention the Appalachian dialect, so if you make the change, keep the current cite (the Montgomery one) in addition to adding this one. If you edit this article in the future, be sure to cite your information. This article has received a lot of poor quality additions in the past, and editors are quick to revert anything unsourced. BrineStans (talk) 01:23, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Okay.LakeKayak (talk) 03:26, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]