Date:  Thu, 24 Feb 1994 07:58:10 EST

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

Subject: Re: local locality pronunciations



>In this vein, I've always regarded these idiosyncratic local pronunciations as

>our modern (modren?) shibboleths. One of my favorites is the suburb of

>Rochester spelled Chili and pronounced to rhyme with jai-alai.

>

>                            LH



From Wayne Glowka

Status: R



A colleague has just reminded me that Taliafero County (in Georgia

somewhere along I-20) is pronounced [taliv[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]r] as a means of forgetting the

jerk after whoM the county was named.