Date:  Mon, 20 Mar 1995 10:43:22 -0500

From:  Donald Larmouth <LARMOUTD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GBMS01.UWGB.EDU>

Subject: Re: Willamette Valley and Oregon



My son David is a senior at Willamette University in Salem. All freshmen from

out of state were told "It's WiLLAMette, dammit!" and this is confirmed in the

Insider's Guide to Colleges handbook. Since there is a community in Wisconsin

called Oregon [oregAn] (rhymes with moron), he could have been in even more

trouble, but his old man knew this shibboleth and taught him [oreg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]n] before he

left. So at least he didn't get into trouble for that.



P.S.: Is there a source for phonetic symbol equivalents on e-mail? I picked up

the ampersand as equivalent to schwa from this communication, but there must be

a standard list somewhere and I'm just ignorant of it.