FRANKER, a town of the United Provinces in the province of Weſt Frieſland, nine miles weſt of Lewarden.

Coordinate term: blue tide

How ya doin, ya Weegie bastard!

The most frequently paraded example of apparent merger in English in the Labovian literature is the line—loin merger in Essex, England (see Labov, Yaeger, and Steiner 1972; Nunberg and Labov 1972; Nunberg 1980); the label stands for the coalescence of /oy/ and /ay/.