Texas vs Bostonian vowels

[Rudolph C Troike]

While the usually very front Southern /ae/ can be perceived in Boston as
the diaphonemic equivalent of /ar/ [a], the latter is actually
phonetically closer to the "Confederate vowel" (Sledd), the
monophthongized pronunciation of /ay/. My favorite example of inter-
regional differences in interpretation comes from a Texas lady named
Kaiser, who on checking into a Boston hotel for an NCTE convention and
giving her name to the clerk, saw him write it down as "Carser".

        Rudy