[Ads-l] Dorchester

[Charles C Doyle]

In my part of the post-vocalic-/r/-dropping South, a common surname is "Doster."

--Charlie

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Subject:      Dorchester
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My daughter, who lives in Canton, Massachusetts, asks:  If Gloucester is pronounced /glahster/ (I taste not the Pierian spring of IPA) and Worcester is pronounced /wooster/, why isn't Dorchester pronounced /dorchster/ or /dorster/?

- Jim Landau
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