[78-L] I Beg To Differ

[David Lennick]

When Intersound invited me to come down and meet the execs at their 
headquarters in Atlanta, they made a hotel reservation and told me to call a 
certain phone number to confirm my arrival. I did and the nice lady answered 
the phone, "Howdy Inn"! Right friendly, I thought. When I got to the address 
I'd given the cab driver, I found I was at the Holiday Inn.

dl

Michael Shoshani wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 14:11 -0500, Bill Knowlton wrote:
> 
>> Oh, for wierd pronounciations do come to Central New York. Pulaski is "pull-ask-eye," Chili is "chy lie."
> 
> Here in Chicago we have a main thoroughfare called Devon Avenue. This is
> pronounced "Duh-VONN".  It intersects with a street called Paulina -
> pronounced "paul-EYE-nah".
> 
> My parents once told me of an adventure they had in Louisville - where
> they lived at the time - in which locals in an unfamiliar neighborhood
> had them going crazy looking for "Round Street".  FINALLY they found
> what they were looking for: ROWAN Street!
> 
> MS
> 
> Whose state is home to the New Madrid Fault...pronounced "MAY-drid".
> 
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