folk awareness of dialect variation

[Jeffrey William McKeough]

Nathan H Brown wrote:
>
>Bostonians use three major things as shibboleths: Boston Common, Public
>Garden, and Copely Square. Boston Common and Public Garden are always in
>the singular, never in the plural.

And I'd say the real shibboleths are Quincy (/kwInzi/) and Faneuil
(/faenl/).  Nobody gets those right.

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Jeffrey William McKeough
jwm at spdcc.com (or spdcc.net)