Do you live in Nork?

[nq:1]I just saw on TV a fire captain who said that he was the captain of the Nork Fire Department. ... city he was referring to if I hadn't seen the truck that of the Newark (New Jersey) fire department.[/nq]
Isn't Newark, Delaware (home of the University of Delaware?) pronounced "Nerk" /nRk/?

Skitt filted:
[nq:1]I just saw on TV a fire captain who said that he was the captain of the Nork Fire Department. ... city he was referring to if I hadn't seen the truck that of the Newark (New Jersey) fire department.[/nq]
Joisey's non-rhotic, is it not?...I suspect my Californian ears (or the one that's functioning today, at any rate) would have heard it as "knock"..r

[nq:1]Skitt filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]I just saw on TV a fire captain who said ... truck that of the Newark (New Jersey) fire department.[/nq]
[nq:1]Joisey's non-rhotic, is it not?...I suspect my Californian ears (or the one that's functioning today, at any rate) would have heard it as "knock"..r[/nq]
Well, yeah, there was very little of an "r" there. The vowel was as in "dork".

Skit

[nq:2]Skitt filted: Joisey's non-rhotic, is it not?...I suspect my Californian ... today, at any rate) would have heard it as "knock"..r[/nq]
[nq:1]Well, yeah, there was very little of an "r" there. The vowel was as in "dork".[/nq]
"Nork" is about right, and has been so for a while. I am pretty sure it's the property of the locals, and I have never heard it much beyond 10 or 15 miles outsi

[nq:2]I just saw on TV a fire captain who said ... truck that of the Newark (New Jersey) fire department.[/nq]
[nq:1]Isn't Newark, Delaware (home of the University of Delaware?) pronounced "Nerk" /nRk/?[/nq]
Newark, Delaware, is pronounced "new-ark" each syllable like the word so spelled and equal emphasis on both. "New Ark, Delaware."

I've heard the one in NJ pronounced "Noork" o

[nq:1]Joisey's non-rhotic, is it not?...I suspect my Californian ears (or theone that's functioning today, at any rate) would have heard it as "knock"..r[/nq]
Joisey's not entirely non-rhotic. The accent varies quite a bit depending on location. I grew up about 15 miles outside of Nork and I've always been strongly rhotic. I used to pronounce it rhotically to rhyme with "cork" or "dork". Now i

[nq:1], which gives my wife a reason to make fun of me.[/nq]
Yours need reasons?

[nq:2]Joisey's non-rhotic, is it not?...I suspect my Californian ears (or the one that's functioning today, at any rate) would have heard it as "knock"..r[/nq]
[nq:1]Joisey's not entirely non-rhotic. The accent varies quite a bit depending on location. I grew up about 15 miles outside of Nork and I've always been strongly rhotic. I used to pronounce it rhotically to rhyme with "cork" or "dork"

[nq:2], which gives my wife a reason to make fun of me.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yours need reasons?[/nq]
Whoa! How many do you think he has?

Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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My maternal grandmother (born in the 19aughts) grew up in a town in New Jersey 20 miles to the northwest of Newark, and 30 miles to the northwest of midtown M'nhattan, and she is very rhotic. I'm pretty sure she has the usual orange class, but she's not MINMINM (she's MIMBMID I believe).

I'm assuming that Newark itself was historically (i.e., during the first half or second third of the 2