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To: Torie

We had to use the "r"s the Bostonians keep dropping.Wasn't right to just leave 'em lying there,poor little things. So we put 'em in the waRsh.


1,518 posted on 07/19/2005 7:17:58 PM PDT by hoosierham
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To: hoosierham

LOL. We are getting off topic, but New Englanders tend to drop their "r's" because the Puritans who settled the place (Hahvahd Yahd = Harvard Yard), tended to be Cromwell types, and the locus of support for Cromwell was in East Anglica (around Cambridge), in England, and they don't pronounce their "r's" there. Whole congregations moved from East Anglica to New England.


1,550 posted on 07/19/2005 7:22:53 PM PDT by Torie (Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
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