bsg (12/04/82)
(The following was mailed to me in response to a recent posting of mine. The first lines explain why it was mailed to me rather than posted. I pass it on to the net, but take no responsibility for style or content. It is unedited, except the deletion of the author's name. Billie) ____________________________________________________________________________ have seen my share of funny pronunciation. feel free to post to net. I'm not allowed to. Dubois, WYO pronounced 'do boys' not 'do bwah' an interesting sidelite of this is that when pilgrims (anybody who does not have a horse on his/her licence plate) are informed that they have mispronounced Dubois (and they invariably do) respond by referring to the Gros Ventre slide as the 'gross ven tree' slide rather than the correct 'grow vahnt' slide In Vermont there is the town of charlotte 'shar LOT' and the city of Barre 'barry' which is close to montpelier 'mont peel year' not 'mont pel ee yay' other goodies (from westen kansas) include peoples names Chvatal quaddle Hrnchir hurn chur Cahoj chuh hoy
jcw (12/06/82)
There is a small town in Alabama called Arab and pronounced with the accent on the first syllable and with the first 'a' long.