Siouan place name (Elkhorn)

Alan Hartley ahartley at d.umn.edu
Tue Jun 15 23:18:51 UTC 2004


ROOD DAVID S wrote:

> For what it's worth, my maternal grandmother told me her parents came from
> [norfork] in England.  The actual spelling of the place, however, is
> "Norfolk".

In the early 20th century, the prevailing pron. of Norfolk (Va.) in
Smoky Mountain speech was [norfork] (both vowels diphthongized).

Alan



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