Teaching With a Kentucky Accent

[Steve Kl.]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Millie Webb wrote:

> dEnIs has pointed out before.  I find it very odd that a people who
> pronounce "milk" as [mElk], Wisconsin as [wEsconsIn],

For what it's worth, I still say ELL-i-noi and EN-dee-an-uh, too. Do
people from Illinois say that, or is it just Michiganders?

(Many of my Michigan features have fallen by the wayside after I moved
out east, but this is not one of those. It'll always be mElk for me!