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