[78-L] Pronounciations and Odd Label Misspellings: Deep EllumBlues~From the Ellum City!

[Bob Rice]

  Well, howbout NYC's Houston St.?  House-ton, rather than HUston, like 
Hu-ston Texas, IF I have any of them spelt right?Or 8 caaars on a Baaaston 
Train, or I Left the caaar in the garrrrage!Or "Poor Carnation" For "Pua 
Carnation" For the Hawaiian song?Or ARKANSAW for the state?English? Anyhow? 
Howthehell DID we get most of it right, anyhow?
    Good Mourning! A Nu Year is upon US! Have ya scene the remake of "The 
Day the Earth Stood Still"? Feh! Don't waste your movie money! They 
destroyed a great science fiction classic!The 1951 story made sense(cents). 
Todaze? Just a lot of expensive special effects?Glitz, noise, look for it on 
DVD in a few weaks?

   Sea Ya

    Bob ~ English bashing is Fun! The Toyota Hybrid car "Prius"?? Pri-us" 
Priiuss"Sheeple are learning this one. IF we don't go Nu-clur<g>?

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From: "Royal Pemberton" <ampex354 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Pronounciations and Odd Label Misspellings: Deep 
EllumBlues


> Do those FFV folk sound rather like Scottish people?   One notable
> mutation that comes to mind is the kind of traditional Scottish dance
> that was originally known as 'contra' dance, but by way of the typical
> pronunciation it became known as 'country' dance.
>
> (That quirk of the Texan accent has thrown me too; I remember one time
> someone telling me about a group whose name sounded like 'promise'
> when he spoke of it.  Primus was their name.)
>
> On 1/2/09, Gregg Kimball <gdkimball at cox.net> wrote:
>>> What did people get water out of:  tap, spout or spigot?
>>
>> I got mine from the faucet.
>>
>> Being a New Englander, I had to re-learn many words the Virginia way.
>> Staunton is STAN-ton here.  Buchanan is BUCK-an-on, and Buena Vista . . .
>> well, I'm not even sure how to write that out. There is also a really
>> interesting Richmond-Tidewater accent, especially among the FFVs, that
>> pronounces words like house something like: HOOS.
>>
>> This also reminds me of some of the famous mis-hearings = misspellings on
>> labels: "Far In the Mountain" for "Fire on the Mountain" and "Green
>> Mountain Poker" for "Green Mountain Polka," which is not a polka, but 
>> that's
>> another story.  Clearly on "Fire" someone couldn't quite figure out what 
>> a
>> Texas boy was saying!
>>
>> Gregg
>>
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