Yes, Xi'anren might have a bit of the N/L thing going on, but as you said, they're so hard to comprehend in general that it's hard to tell. I had a hard time understanding the locals when I was in Xi'an. If you want clear examples of the N/L confusion, without much other confusion going on, go to Jiangsu. The people of Nanjing notoriously call their own city Lanjing.
The F/H confusion seems to be a Yunnan thing, mostly restricted to the Lijiang area. I was rather baffled the first time a hotel receptionist asked me for my fu4zhao4 rather than my hu4zhao4, but I quickly got used to it.
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Date: 2005-08-26 07:45 am (UTC)The F/H confusion seems to be a Yunnan thing, mostly restricted to the Lijiang area. I was rather baffled the first time a hotel receptionist asked me for my fu4zhao4 rather than my hu4zhao4, but I quickly got used to it.