In a message dated 12/22/03 0:01:32, hammons@cr6.net writes: > For example:  Ilah is sometimes 'Iler' and Diane is Dianer etc. Has anyone > else noticed this?   I think people in England do this too in some areas. I > would like to know the whys and wherefores of this if any one knows? > Pat: You're right, but I don't know any "whys or wherefores". That's what they do in Massachusetts, the land of my birth. It took a lot of ribbing from my wife's side of the family to get me out of that nasty habit. We left the r out of some places and transposed it to some other improper places. A friend of mine was married to Martha, which he pronounced "Mahther". No rhyme nor reason to it -- just the way he did it. Maybe it came from England -- but, "why"??? Roy