[78-L] Funny town names...

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Tue Jan 12 22:06:39 PST 2010


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Rice" <bobrice at snet.net>
>  But the song"When You Drop off in Cairo, Illinois," by Billy Murray, 
> about
> 1919, "a deligation will meet you at the station" etc. HE calls it Cairo,
> like in Egypt?Was HE wrong, too?
>
Apparently, at least according to the local pronunciation...!

Steven C. Barr 




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