Date:  Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:29:48 -0800

From:  David Harnick-Shapiro <david[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BUCKAROO.ICS.UCI.EDU>

Subject: Re: Local pron. of toponyms



On Thu, 24 Feb 1994 15:36:09 --100, Peter Trudgill <PeterJohn.Trudgill[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ANGL.UNIL.CH> writes:



> But I bet you don't know - just to pick 2 examples at random just down the

> road from me in Norwich:

>    Wymondham /wind[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]m/

>    Happisburgh /heizbr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]/

> ...

> P.J. Trudgill

> ...

> University of Lausanne

> CH-1015 Lausanne

> Switzerland



I don't know -- by now, I ought to be used to the disparity between

email address and physical location -- but there's something dissonant

to me about Norwich being "just down the road" from Lausanne... that

road must include the Chunnel



 :-) :-) :-)



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