The Canadians are taking over the Merrimack Valley?

[caitlin o]

Full-blown Canadian here.  "eigh" and "eh" are pronounced identically in my rural, western dialect.

> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:14:26 -0400
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> Subject: The Canadians are taking over the Merrimack Valley?
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> Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
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> My viewing of the TV news this evening was interrupted by a weather 
> alert for flash floods.  Supplementing the scrolling warning, 
> describing the dangers in various locations in northeastern 
> Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, was a voice-over that named 
> particular towns.  Two were "Bill-rick-a" and "Nash-ooh-a", 
> pronounced like A as in NEIGHBOR and WEIGH.
> 
> (No especial emphasis on any of the three syllables.)
> 
> Although I suppose genuine Canucks don't say "eigh" but rather "eh".
> 
> Joel
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