On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 12:49:44 -0400, "Bert Robbins" wrote:


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John Gaquin wrote:
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And it is pronounced "tawn-ick."


No, it is pronounced "tonic". No one not native to the area should
ever
try to mimic an eastern MA accent. They only succed in making
embarrassing spectacles of themselves.


My mother was a Bostonian, and most of my close relatives were born on
and
lived on the North Shore. The word is pronounced "tawnick."

How else could one possibly pronounce tonic, other than "tawnick"?

You could always tell somebody wasn't from Eastern Mass when they
would want directions to Pea Body rather than Peabudy.

Sort of like Wooster?

We have a Wooster down here in Maryland. It is the name of the county that
is on the Atlantic ocean. We also have a Dooster county.


IIRC from my Fort Devins days, there is a town in Mass. named Worcester,
pronounced 'wooster'.
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John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."