Re: USAGE: [T] -> [f] (formerly ChineseDialectQuestion)

John Cowan wrote:
>Tristan McLeay wrote:
> > I understand there's a place in America called 'Wooster', named
> > after Worcester.
>
> It's in the non-rhotic part of Massachusetts, and is locally pronounced
> [wust@], with a tense [u].
>
No no. The Mass. city is spelled à l'anglaise or "correctly" if you will;
one Wooster is in Ohio (there may be others).

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