Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 07:49:14 EST

From: Wayne Glowka wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU

Subject: Re: [u]/[ju] in Houston



Buena Vista, IN (bet you can't find it on a map) is also pronounced [byuna

vIsta] (read schwa for a) and comes with a folk etymological narrative. It is

said that the local priest (who, of course, knew Latin) gave the community

this Latin name for 'pleasant view.' The Mexican-American War naming fetish

apparently left no folk memory (even though there is a Saltilloville-you can

guess the pronunciation) not far away.

Dennis Preston





Wasted away again in Saltilloville,

Looking for my lost shaker of Salt



Wayne Glowka (with no stories about Buena Vista, AL, except that there is

some kind of country "nightclub" (term used by visiting scholar from China

at our own Cowboy Bill's) there.