End of ADS-L Digest - 22 Feb 1994 to 23 Feb 1994

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There are 39 messages totalling 715 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. local locality pronunciations (11)

 2. Local pron. of toponyms (2)

 3. Strange Advertisement (2)

 4. [u]/[ju] in Houston

 5. Phonetic/Phonemic E-Mail Alphabet (3)

 6. Texas town names (6)

 7. Local pronunciation of toponyms

 8. Other side of Atlantic (2)

 9. Ed Callary, Please

 10. croissants (2)

 11. Student research

 12. e-mail <second thoughts (4)

 13. Houston

 14. local locality pronunciation

 15. Address change



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Date:  Thu, 24 Feb 1994 00:00:15 EST

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: local locality pronunciations



In this vein, I've always regarded these idiosyncratic local pronunciations as

our modern (modren?) shibboleths. One of my favorites is the suburb of

Rochester spelled Chili and pronounced to rhyme with jai-alai.



                            LH