Siouan place name (Elkhorn)

[Bruce Ingham]

On 16/6/04 1:00 am, "Rory M Larson" <rlarson at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote:

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>> ROOD DAVID S wrote:
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>>> For what it's worth, my maternal grandmother told me her parents came
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>>> [norfork] in England.  The actual spelling of the place, however, is
>>> "Norfolk".
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>> In the early 20th century, the prevailing pron. of Norfolk (Va.) in
>> Smoky Mountain speech was [norfork] (both vowels diphthongized).
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>> Alan
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> 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.
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For those interested in English place names we have Norfolk 'North Folk' and
Suffolk 'South Folk'.  Norfolk has good rivers for sailing on
Bruce