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Re: English is a crazy language

From:Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 22:32
Michael Poxon comunu:

> It'd be interesting to see what's happened to > pronunciations of English place-names used as American ones. For instance, > do they have a 'Warwick' and if so is it pronounced the same as ours,
i.e.,
> /worik/?
Warwick (Rhode Island) is in fact pronounced /war-wik/. The shibboleths to distinguish the locals from the invaders around here (Massachusetts) are: - Worcester /woo-ster/ - Peabody /pee-b@-dee/ - Haverhill /hav-@r-l/ Being a Buckeye, I mispronounced all of these when I first moved here. (A Buckeye is a native of Ohio.) Most other Mass. place names are pronounced as they are spelt. Best regards, Jeffrey http://jeffrey.henning.com http://www.langmaker.com