[Ads-l] Dorchester
Charles C Doyle
cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Wed Apr 20 16:43:29 UTC 2016
In my part of the post-vocalic-/r/-dropping South, a common surname is "Doster."
--Charlie
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Poster: "James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM>
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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