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>