Meat 2

Link to the Sound File: Click on the link below to get to a page where there is a sound file of this interview segment. 

https://soundcloud.com/miluk-org/meat-2-lhm-interview-p/s-aZQlv

Only a Heavy Pronunciation: From the part of the interview before the tape recorder was turned on, Lolly Metcalf may have pronounced this word once beginning with an ejective like Annie’s pronunciation of this word.  Whether from that or otherwise, Swadesh may have had such a transcription of the word in his notes and was trying to get her to say it that way.  Swadesh evidently asked her to speak more loudly at different times in the interview so as not to let on that he thought that there was anything wrong with any of her pronunciations of Milluk words.  Lolly seems to have realized this and was evidently so exasperating by having to speak more loudly that in this case, quite late in the interview, she is driven to mispronouncing the Milluk word here the fourth time that she says it. 

Instant Phonetic Englishization:  datt, for Lolly’s version of the word. 

Annie’s version of the word is: t!att.