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From: rdd@usa1.com (Aaron J. Dinkin)
Subject: Re: "Bother" and "father" rhyme
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 09:09:19 -0500
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In article <320fbbe8.11374857@news.gnatnet.net>, djohns@gnatnet.net wrote:

> rdd@usa1.com (Aaron J. Dinkin) wrote:
> 
> 
> # In my part of the USA, I make the three-way /a/-/A/-/ar/ distinction.
> # (Though Boston is traditionally nonrhotic, so some folks around here
> # collapse 1 and 3.)
> 
> Yes, there are a lot of people in eastern New England who have restored the
> postvocalic Rs, but still have other features of the traditional accent.
> But there are also areas on the fringes of that accent who sound very
> similar.  I knew a woman who came from northern New Hampshire who I at
> first thought was a Bostonian with Rs restored, but she said that no one in
> her area was R-less, even though they had the rounded vowel in _bother_.

_What_ rounded vowel in "bother"?

-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom

