Fwd: Re: Folk Awareness oif Dialect

[Helen Lawrence]

I'm sorry to be pedantic, but no one in England apart from the odd American
tourist, would ever pronounce the county town of Worcestershire as anything
other than "Wooster."

><In Virginia we say "my ahnt lives in Stanton," while a typical yankee would
>say "my
>ant lives in Stahnton." Nobody is consistent, except maybe in Boston.>
>
>Phil replied: 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").
>
>I heartily second Phil. Aunt does not rhyme with ant in Tahnton. Also located
>in the vicinity is Worcester, Mass, pronounced
>"Wooster", not like "Worchester" in England.
>
>Sharyn storknurse

Helen Lawrence
Dept of Language and Linguistic Science
University of York
Heslington
York
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