Re: New Englishisms

On 3/10/99, you wrote: "would think that these are pretty common, actually.
 I myself often say "except" as [ksEpt], "potatos" [pteid@z]."

My father's side of the family uses a classic Irishism for those lovely
tubers, /b@deyd@z/. Somehow the potato became pronounced as if it were
'bodado' in Irish-American speech, which in New England is always a
nonrhotic dialect.

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