[78-L] I Beg To Differ

[Royal Pemberton]

Some local towns here in Arkansas have some eccentric pronunciations
too.  Viola is 'vye-ola' and weirdest of all, a town whose name is
spelt Gamaliel sounds like it rhymes with the flower camellia.

On 1/2/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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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