Date:    Sat, 16 May 1998 19:24:54 -0700
<br>From:    Bill King <wfking[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GOTNET.NET>
<br>Subject: Re: nativisms
<br>
<br>California goes nativist too.  Vallejo/VuhLAY-ho,  Vacaville/Vackaville,
<br>Chowchilla (guess!), SACKremen-o, Loss Annjealous (Loss Angle-ease), and
<br>Sandy-ay-go are not quite on target.
<br>
<br>Here's something to chew on.
<br>Upstate New York also has several cities and towns with names of foreign
<br> countries
<br>and cities such as Cuba, Poland, Norway, Peru, Russia , Madrid, Rome, Naples,
<br>Salamanca, Waterloo, Lisbon, Warsaw, Paris, Troy, Syracuse, Carthage, Utica,
<br> and
<br>Corinth  All of these have English spellings,  but for a subset,  the native
<br>language spelling is the same as the English spelling.  So, if people use the
<br>English pronunciation of, say, Cuba, is this  going nativist?
<br>    Next: Oneida, Oswego, Ticonderoga.
<br>
<br>Bill King
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<br>
<br>Larry Horn wrote:
<br>
<br>> At 5:22 PM -0400 5/13/98, Beverly Flanigan (or someone she was quoting?)
<br> wrote:
<br>> >>And then there's Peru, IN [pe ru], stress on first syllable; Chile, IN
<br>> >>[chai li]; Brazil, IN [brae z[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]l], stress on first; Cairo, IL [ke ro];
<br>> >>Milan, MN [mai l[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]n], stress on first; Bellefontaine, OH, semi-calqued to
<br>> >>'Bellefountain'....
<br>> >>
<br>> Upstate New Yorkers go nativist with a vengeance.  The Chili that's a
<br>> suburb of Rochester is [CHAI lai], as in "jai alai"
<br>>
<br>> Larry
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