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

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.

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