Well, it is possible -- there could be one or two items even that could be distinguished by a local, especially one not socioeconomically part of the twitterworld. I recall spending summers on a farm near Avon, Illinois (west-central), with no notable isoglosses around, and discovered that I could identify teen-agers from Avon, even in a dark movie theater (cinema), by their stress on the second syllable of the word. Rudy Rudy Troike University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona ________________________________ From: Variationist List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of VAR-L automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2018 5:00:46 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: VAR-L Digest - 20 Dec 2018 to 28 Dec 2018 (#2018-128) ######################################################################## The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1