stOr@ Drive

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/18/2009 10:42 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>On Jul 18, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>>At 7/18/2009 06:31 AM, Damien Hall wrote:
>>>I'm especially sure of
>>>this for proper names, like Storrow, which I can't imagine
>>>pronouncing
>>>[stOr@] in 'citation form'.
>>
>>But in Boston isn't it stOr@ Drive?
>
>it certainly wasn't when i lived there.

Perhaps not among your upper-crust neighbors, Arnold, but around mine ...  :-)

Joel

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