If she's from Cincinnati, she would've said 'hæt' aloud. A New Englander reading this would think of the sound 'h/ah/t'. However the Cincy lady would have spoken it, not written it.
I lived in Boston for a dozen years. I know pronunciation differs. However you're suggesting that aural parsing differs.
I understand this with Long Island accents, where they say "Mary, merry, and marry" differently but us upstate New Yorker cannot hear a difference. It took me a year of Nassau County jagovs laughing at me before I realized they nasalized two of them (the ones without the 'e') and had this vowel stretch on the Virgin's name.
Do Bostonians think "hat" and "heart" are homophones? I never noticed anything that extreme. How would they honor the flag at the opening of sporting events?
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Date: 2017-01-06 16:36 (UTC)If she's from Cincinnati, she would've said 'hæt' aloud. A New Englander reading this would think of the sound 'h/ah/t'. However the Cincy lady would have spoken it, not written it.
I lived in Boston for a dozen years. I know pronunciation differs. However you're suggesting that aural parsing differs.
I understand this with Long Island accents, where they say "Mary, merry, and marry" differently but us upstate New Yorker cannot hear a difference. It took me a year of Nassau County jagovs laughing at me before I realized they nasalized two of them (the ones without the 'e') and had this vowel stretch on the Virgin's name.
Do Bostonians think "hat" and "heart" are homophones? I never noticed anything that extreme. How would they honor the flag at the opening of sporting events?