Date:  Sat, 26 Feb 1994 08:21:17 +0500

From:  Robert Howren <howren[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GIBBS.OIT.UNC.EDU>

Subject: Re: local locality pronunciations



On Wed, 23 Feb 1994, Martha Howard wrote:

> In re Wayne Glowka's surprise at the pronunciation of Buena Vista, I

> have learned here in West Virginia to listen to how a native says an

> area or town name before I venture to doit. Example (read [AT SYMBOL GOES HERE] as schwa)

> Kanawha is k[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]na and Pisgah is pizgee.

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My Kanawha County wife, by dint of repeated effort, finally got me to

reduce "Kanawha" to two syllables, but insists on a slightly lengthened

and half-rounded final vowel--[k[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nA:].

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    Robert Howren          Dept. of Linguistics

    howren[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]gibbs.oit.unc.edu    University of North Carolina

                    Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155

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