[78-L] Pronunciations ^

[David Lennick]

Bud Black wrote:
> In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Arkansas avenue is pronounced "Ark-Kan-zuss." 
> By the way, why the poop is the state of Arkansas pronounced "Ark-kin-saw?" 
> (seems to me I have an MGM recording of a song called "The State Of Arkansas
>  sung by Jimmy Durante.  (I mention this just to keep this subject on topic
> )
> 
> Bud 

And what of the Straits of Mackinac? Sault Ste. Marie? Etobicoke? Dalhousie 
(daLOOzee in southern Ontario, dalHOWzee in Nova Scotia)?

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