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This paper presents hesitations when selecting rustling, hissing and hushing consonants functioning in the Polish language of a daily newspaper published in the Vilnius region in the interwar period, addressed to the Poles living there. The specific phonetic phenomena in the area of consonantism which were incompliant with the general Polish standard of those days have been excerpted from “Kurier Wileński” (“The Courier of Vilnius”). In order to exemplify the quoted phonetic facts, I use a study on the 17th-century literary Polish of the Northern Borderlands, studies describing the individual language of writers and poets associated with the Borderlands in the 19th and 20th centuries, a study on specific regional characteristics of the Polish language in the Vilnius area. I occasionally quote data from normative sources. I also refer to the linguistic layer of the Vilnius post-war press. The analysis has shown that the phenomena regarding the phonetic layer, noticed in “Kurier Wileński” of the period 1924–1939, were relatively numerous and considered characteristic of the Northern Borderlands Polish language by the researchers of earlier periods. They were also refl ected in the post-was Vilnius press, although less clearly than in the examined daily.