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From: "Bobbie Hall" <>
Subject: Re: [MAMiddle] The William Walker Mystery
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 22:32:57 -0600
References: <000001c87ffb$0ea54490$6501a8c0@laptop>


> Page 46
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> WORKER (see Walker), Minerva, ch, Samuel and Marther, Jan 24, 1809
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> NOTE: WHY "Worker"?

Put a strong Boston accent on Walker and you get <phonetically> Wah-kah.
If you take the word Worker, and do the same, you get Werk-ah <with a *very*
soft 'r'>.

Not a lot of difference in the two pronunciations.



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