Mailing List:2001-01-21 26, Re: Worcester, by Lyn Legere

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From: Lyn Legere <lynleg -at- bu.edu> Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Worcester Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:26:30 -0500 References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Hey Shawn - Yes, Concord is Konkord, as it is spelled. To every rule there is an exception. It's one of the few names that really sound just like the spelling. Some other goodies - Gloucester = Glosta; Cities ending in "ham" like Stoneham, Chatham - last syllable is "um", so Chat - um and Stone-um. And then there's Wellesley - Wellsly. We're just too busy to get the whole word out! Lyn Shawn Whitney wrote: > Wait Just A Minute! > I live in Washington and I grew up in Orygun. And I don't say Warshington. And > I don't say Oreegone, like you people "back east" do! > > When in Boston several times a year.... I don't even try and pronounce the names > I see on the map. I just say "that place"... as in "hey you". I came home > this summer and told my mother that I fell in love with Concord and want to move > there. How do you pronounce it? Tee Hee, I should learn. I have been > spreading the rumor that it is pronounced ConKorD. Probably wrong huh? > > Shawn > > AT&T wrote: > > > Hi Lyn, > > As a matter of correction - very few Midwesterners add an R in the middle of > > words like watch (wartch) or wash (warsh). I have lived in MN and WI all my > > life and have never encountered this. I have traveled through Illinois, > > Indiana, and Ohio on many occasions and have encountered this very rarely - > > the 3 or 4 times have been in Ohio, and that seems more east than midwest to > > me based on a map. Whoever thought that OH was in the middle of the > > country? > > BUT... alot of people from the Northwest seem to do this, WA, OR and NE seem > > to come to mind. > > > > Just have to protect the reputation of the TRUE Midwesterner. <<grin>> > > Jo Hogle > > jhogle -at- mn.mediaone.net

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