Date:    Fri, 15 May 1998 11:49:21 -0400
<br>From:    Larry Horn <laurence.horn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: nativisms
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<br>At 5:22 PM -0400 5/13/98, Beverly Flanigan (or someone she was quoting?) wrote:
<br>>>And then there's Peru, IN [pe ru], stress on first syllable; Chile, IN
<br>>>[chai li]; Brazil, IN [brae z[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]l], stress on first; Cairo, IL [ke ro];
<br>>>Milan, MN [mai l[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]n], stress on first; Bellefontaine, OH, semi-calqued to
<br>>>'Bellefountain'....
<br>>>
<br>Upstate New Yorkers go nativist with a vengeance.  The Chili that's a
<br>suburb of Rochester is [CHAI lai], as in "jai alai"
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<br>Larry
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