Siouan place name (Elkhorn)

[Rory M Larson]

> 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

If the original Norfolks in England and Virginia were pronounced
[norfork], that would make the "correction" by the postal authorities
of Norfork to "Norfolk" easier to understand.  The pronunciation
would have been the same.

Rory