Date:  Thu, 24 Feb 1994 12:45:58 EST

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

Subject: Re: local locality pronunciations



>Some Kansas shibboleths:

>

>1. The Arkansas river is the ar KAN sas (vowel in CAN) in Wichita, while the

>state is AR k[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]n saw. A small town near the Oklahoma border is ar KAN sas City.

>In Oklahoma, the river and the state are pronounced the same, but the city

>keeps its Kansas pronunciation.

>

>2. El Dorado (near Wichita) is el do RAY do.

>

>3. Olathe (a town between Lawrence and Kansas City) is o LAY the (schwa at the

>end.

>

>4. And, so far as I know, only easterners pronounce Colorado and Nevada with

>the /a/ in father. Out here these have the vowel in CAT.

>

>5. Not from Kansas, but only the unwashed and college professors pronounce

>Cairo, Illinois as anything but KAY ro.





From Wayne Glowka: Texicans say [kalorad[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]]. But we're Texicans, not

Status: R



Westerners.



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