Tham khảo tài liệu 'english in the southern united states phần 8', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | The Englishes of southern Louisiana 179 1933 phonetic transcription of Cajan. This feature and ai a are two of six typical features of current Cajun English identified by Dubois and Horvath 1998b 163 . The spellings ball for boil and all for oil suggest the monophthongization of oi but the spellings coil for call and oil for all suggest the reverse. The spelling of plane plate same and pave as pleen pleet seem and peeve indicate raising of e to i and the spelling of in and itch as een and each show tensing of i to i . Conventional lunch and punch are spelled launch and paunch a to o . By far the most frequent and consistent vowel correspondence is the occurrence of c in Cajun English where other dialects have e as in ag for egg vary for very harry for hairy tan for ten ranch for wrench shad for shed pansil for pencil and many others. Although this is not one of the six typical features identified by linguists it is certainly a caricatured feature used when imitating Cajun English speakers. How do the words and phrases presented as localisms in Cajun Dictionary and Speaking Louisiana compare with the findings of DARE and LAGS The three published volumes of DARE A-O mark 165 entries with the provenance Louisiana or New Orleans An Index by Region 1993 Von Schneidemesser 1999 . From the A-O entries in the General Index to LAGS two more can be added. Of these 167 entries thirty-seven are recorded in one or both of the popular dictionaries see Appendix 1 . The largest segment of the terms from the popular dictionaries comprises food terms familiar throughout southern Louisiana and now spreading nationally with Cajun cuisine andouille beignet boudin crawfish bisque crawfish boil dirty rice file gumbo jambalaya king cake and so forth. As pointed out in Speaking Cajun every fan of the Louisiana State University Tigers knows the word cush cush fried cornmeal mush eaten as a cereal even if they have never tasted the food from the cheer Hot boudin cold cush cush Come on Tigers
