Folk Awareness oif Dialect

[Megan Jones]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 23:29:29 -0500 pcleary at WANS.NET (Philip E. Cleary) wrote:


>
>The city of Taunton is located 30-odd miles south of Boston. Most Bostonians
>call the place "Tawnton" (as in "taunt"); the natives call it something like
>"Tahnton" (as in "aunt," which does not rhyme with "ant").
>


In the namesake, Taunton, Somerset UK, natives call it something like the
Bostonians do - just over the county border in Devon, they say Tahnton as in
"aunt" - Hmmm?!

Megan Jones