Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 12:01:43 -0500
From: Wayne Glowka wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU
Subject: Re: Sulking Over Silky Milk & Other Words of That Ilk
By the way, one of those announcers with a stay-pressed smile on ET last
night pronounced the name of Dekalb, Illinois, with an /l/. There is no
/l/ in "Dekalb County," a county in the metro Atlanta area.
Wait a minute! Atlanta is in Cobb County. Maybe what you've hearing is "de
Cobb" county. %^)
-- Jim
I don't have a map in here and I'm late for class, but the Atlanta METRO
counties include Fulton, Clayton, Cobb, and Dekalb. Some At(a)lanter can
fill you in on the details. Georgia counties are small (the theory is that
a person could ride to the courthouse and home in a day on a horse); metro
Atlanta is big.
Wayne Glowka
Professor of English
Director of Research and Graduate Student Services
Georgia College
Milledgeville, GA 31061
912-453-4222
wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu