[Magdalen] HOT-fd.

[Charles Wohlers]

Some of my dear wife's ancestors were early settlers in the Wyoming 
Valley (Scranton - Wilkes-Barre). They all came from in New England, 
which may explain the accent. A few were killed in the Wyoming Valley 
massacre, others (obviously) survived.

And, BTW, Hartford, VT (the town in which White River Junction is 
located) is pronounced, at least as I have heard it, with the r's.

-- 
Chad Wohlers
chadwohl at satucket.com
Woodbury, VT   USA




On 07.09.2019 10:29, cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> I am interested that in a current advertising campaign, a USA
> company is called "The Hartford," with the ads being fullyrhotic.
> 
> 
> My good friend, the O/C of the Christ Church Cathedral (Eau Claire,
> USA)is from Hartford, CT and his speech and in particular his
> pronunciation ofhis home town is completely non-rhotic.  IOW, the
> "r's" in Hartford arecompletely silent.  This sounds like "HOT-fd.  It
> is amazing how just a quickdrive east from NE Pennsylvania puts one in
> what is linguistically New England.
> 
> 
> It's fascinating how different the NE PA "Coal Cracker" accent is from
> the softer, moregenteel (?) accent of New England. Sometimes I detect
> a bit of the local coal crackerin the speech of Joe Biden who spent
> his youth here.
> 
> 
> David Strang.with a very rhotic Upper Midwestern accent.