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

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, October 6, 2003, 0:23
Roger Mills scripsit:
> 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).
Ah. I interpreted Tristan as meaning that it was literally "called" Wooster, using that as an ad hoc diaphonematic spelling; but you took me to understand him to mean that it was spelled thus, which of course it isn't. I didn't know there were any cities spelled w-o-o-s-t-e-r, but I suppose I should know better. -- John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com jcowan@reutershealth.com We want more school houses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more constant work and less crime; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures. --Samuel Gompers