Date:  Sun, 14 Dec 1997 19:07:21 -0500
From:  Beverly Flanigan <FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Poker; Jew; Pimp; White House; Java; Johnny Cake; Salt River; at
     al.

  On journey cake: If the term originated in New England, it would be
  pronounced r-less, hence folk-shifted to "johnny." Since Philadelphia
  was r-pronouncing, the newspaper doesn't see (or jokingly pretends not
  to see?) that the new term has nothing to do with a man's name. DARE
  must have this explanation, but I don't have it at hand.

  On Bosting: I would assume this is a hypercorrection on the
  assumption that "Boston" was originally an -ing-ending word pronounced
  -in' by the locals. But would 'Bosting' really have been a folk
  pronunciation, or was the Phila. newspaper again drawing false
  conclusions (and even ironically, perhaps?)?