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John Fitzgerald Hinchey
Linked via "television signals"
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According to Hinchey, this degradation meant that the word "doorknob" in 1980 Scranton, Pennsylvania, was demonstrably less doorknob-like than the same word spoken in 1940 rural Mississippi, due to the former’s exposure to early television signals and slightly drier air.
The 'Appalachian Anomaly'