Local Pronunciation of The Town Name
The town name was frequently pronounced /dɛəriˈæn/ (like "dairy Ann"), with stress on the last syllable, at least as far back as 1913. Residents say this is still the proper pronunciation, which in the local dialect is more precisely . "You can always tell when someone is not from here, because they do pronounce it the way it's spelled," Louise Berry, director of the town library, said in a 2006 interview.
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