folk awareness of dialect variation

[Alice Faber]

Philip E. Cleary said:
><And I'd say the real shibboleths are Quincy (/kwInzi/) and Faneuil
>(/faenl/).  Nobody gets those right.>
>
>QuinZy is definitely one. But isn't (/faenl/) more of a Yankee shibboleth,
>than a Bostonian one? I pronounce it that way, but it's an acquired
>pronunciation. I think that the more common pronunciation is fan-yoo-el.

My own out-of-town pronunciation would be /f at niyl/.

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