Re: English is a crazy language

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
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