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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm running a little behind but would like to add my contribution to the Baptist/Babtist pronunciation thread.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, M. Lynne Murphy wrote:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>How about that pronunciation 'Babtist'?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To which Bethany replied.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I never heard anything else growing up in se texas.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I grew up as the daughter of a Baptist preacher in Mississippi. We lived in a community in central Mississippi from 1957-1962 where the pronunciation for many people was BABuhtis', and people got babuhtized when they got saved.</FONT></P>
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