"The _hopper_"

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jun 25 04:02:24 UTC 2012


If we're talking about Boston accents, how is this different from
regular overcompensation in words like "idea[r]"?

     VS-)

On 6/24/2012 11:09 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> Are we talking about the DISH Satellite TV commercial, where all the
> accents are clearly from Boston??
>
> DanG
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu>wrote:
>
>> the "hopper

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