Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 15:57:03 +0700

From: Gwyn Williams gwyn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IPIED.TU.AC.TH

Subject: Re: Local pron. of toponyms



On Thu, 24 Feb 1994, Peter Trudgill wrote:



There's no point you guys on that side of the Atlantic trying to

compete with the REAL thing. You all know about Leicester and Worcester.

But I bet you don't know - just to pick 2 examples at random just down the

road from me in Norwich:

Wymondham /wind[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]m/

Happisburgh /heizbr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]/



Can any generalizations be made about these types of pronunciations? eg.,

vowel merger, deletions, etc?



Gwyn Williams

Linguistics

Thammasat University

Bangkok

gwyn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ipied.tu.ac.th