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Wow, good catch. Unsurprisingly, I didn't think to look there. I've never heard that it has any relation to the Eastern New England dialect.

• eropple 13y ago
  Me neither - I'm from New England, though, so I looked there first.
• JPKab 13y ago
  New England missionaries, I've been told, were the ones who set up the first English language schools in Hawaii.