folk awareness of dialect variation

[Jeffrey William McKeough]

Mark_Mandel at dragonsys.com wrote:
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>Jeffrey William McKeough <jwm at URSOLARIS.SPDCC.COM> writes about Boston
>shibboleths:
>
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>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/.

Yes, sorry.  I meant the place name.

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