FW: Houston Street (fwd)

[Mark A Mandel]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Peter A. McGraw wrote:

#Oops--this was meant for the list.  --PMc
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#---------- Forwarded Message ----------
#Date: Monday, February 3, 2003 8:42 AM -0800rrom: "Peter A. McGraw"
#<pmcgraw at linfield.edu>
#To: abatefr at earthlink.net
#Subject: Re: FW: Houston Street
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#What seems mysterious to me is not that there should be /aw/ vs. /u/
#variants of a name spelled "Houston," but where the /ju/~/iw/ variant came
#from.  You'd expect a name pronounced this way would be spelled "Huston."

Oh? I'd expect a word spelled "Huston" to be pronounced /'h^st at n/, with
the first syllable rhyming with "bus".

-- Mark A. Mandel