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

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Sunday, October 5, 2003, 20:48
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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