Date:  Fri, 25 Feb 1994 07:44:31 EST

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

Subject: Re: local locality pronunciations



I think I misspelled Taliaferro. Wayne



>I'm not sure whether the eponymous gentleman was being forgotten or

>memorialized. I recall a former quarterback--he may have played for the

>Jets and/or the Patriots--whose name was spelled Taliaferro (like the county

>except for the double t) and pronounced in just that manner, as in Oliver.

>So we may not be dealing with perverse toponymy here but perverse onomastics,

>if that's the right technonym.

>--Larry

>----------------------------Original message----------------------------

>>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

>

>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.