[Magdalen] HOT-fd.

[Donald Boyd]

But is it HAHT-, HORT- HAWT-, HUTT-?  How about -fuhd, -fid, -ferd?   
(Got some nonrhotics in there but I was thinking about vowel variation)


On 9/7/2019 9:29 AM, cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
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> I am interested that in a current advertising campaign, a USA
> company is called "The Hartford," with the ads being fullyrhotic.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> David Strang.with a very rhotic Upper Midwestern accent.
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