"No pork on my fork"

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:52 AM -0400 6/21/05, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
>Pay-ru (IN), Chi-lee (IN), Lie-ma (OH), Rye-o Grand (OH), . . .  Didn't we
>cover these a few years ago?

We did indeed, and probably a few years before that.  It's your basic
comet scenario.

On each of those occasions, I must have nominated my favorite, Chili,
NY (suburb of Rochester), pronounced [CHAI-lai], as in jai-alai.  And
of course the Ohioan pronunciation of "Lima" is also found in the
general pronunciation of the eponymous bean.

Larry

>At 08:51 AM 6/21/2005, you wrote:
>>Narbonne...
>>
>>JL
>>
>>"Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU> wrote:
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>>Ah! Versailles, Madrid, Cairo...
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>>dInIs
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>>>I had a friend in grad school who grew up near Arab, Alabama. He
>>>said it was always pronounced "AY-rab."
>>>
>>>JL
>>>
>>>Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>>On Jun 20, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Mullins, Bill wrote:
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>>>>>  During the Korean-War era, a friend of mine was stationed at
>>>>>  Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville. According to him, GI's
>>>>>  referred to the locals as "doo-wahs," because of a feature of
>>>>>  the local dialect. Instead of saying, "huh? or "what?" or
>>>>>  even "say what?", the locals said, "_Do_ what?"
>>>>>
>>>>>  Thanks to Jerry Springer, I can testify that "do what?" is
>>>>>  still used in this way, though, unfortunately, I can't say
>>>>>  where, since the "guests" don't always mention their home
>>>>>  states or hometowns. To my ear, "do what?" has the same
>>>>>  intonation pattern as "say what?"
>>>>>
>>>>>  -Wilson Gray
>>>>
>>>>  I still say "do what?" in the context you mention (reared in Middle
>>>>  Tennessee).
>>>>
>>>>  And that would have been the KO-re-un war . . . (strong emphasis on
>>>>  the initial syllable)
>>>>
>>>
>>>Needless to say, I don't think that you'll have any problem believing
>>>that the same people who say "JAY pan" also say "KO rea." ;-)
>>>
>>>-Wilson
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