Date:    Fri, 15 May 1998 10:15:37 -0700
<br>From:    "A. Vine" <avine[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ENG.SUN.COM>
<br>Subject: Re: nativisms
<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
<br>
<br>"Jai alai" is regional.  Folks who haven't been in the Northeast
<br>probably haven't heard of it.
<br>
<br>Andrea
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