Do New-Englanders *add* R's?

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sat Mar 1 23:03:35 UTC 2014


Heard on a Boston-area radio local news program:

bill-RICK-er

A town north of Boston, spelled Billerica, and in my experience (and
Wikipedia's) mostly pronounced bill-RICK-uh.

Joel

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