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Re: Bizzah weatheh
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lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos
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Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:14:11 GMT
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At least you don't live in a city where 99% of the residents can't pronounce
any of the local place names! Par example:
The name of the major river that runs through Portland (aka "poreland" or
"fartland, boregon") is properly called the "Willamette" (wil-LAM-et) but is
frequently mispronounced "William-et" or "Willy-am-et". The other major local
river is the "Columbia" which is commonly pronounced as a single syllable
"kl'mb'yuh". I won't even go into names like "Skookumchuk" or "Clackamas" or
"Multnomah" even though all these names are pronounced exactly as they are
written. (Imagine that; phonetic spellings for words that originated in a non-
written tongue!)
In lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, Shiri Dori writes:
> In lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, Dave Schuler writes:
> > I've mentioned this elsewhere, but this is one of very few towns whose name
> > is routinely mispronounced by (some of) the native inhabitants, ie:
> > Picksburgh.
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> ROFL! That's hilarious!
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> -Shiri
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| (...) Yeah.... I consider myself lucky for living in Israel most of my life... a place where spelling is simple and generally phonetical! Sure, the male/female thing is tough to grasp for an outsider, but easy when you learn it that way. The only (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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