folk awareness of dialect variation

[Mark A. Mandel]

Jeffrey William McKeough <jwm at URSOLARIS.SPDCC.COM> writes about Boston
shibboleths:

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

Quincy the town is /'kwInzi/, but Quincy the family (John ___ Adams, Prexy
Sextus), is /'kwInsi/.

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