Ofologists take note!

[Pamela Munro]

Now that Mary M. has reported this, I'll say (as a lurker) that hers is 
the pronunciation I've heard too, possibly from Mary Haas (I can't 
recall), but certainly from my teacher Margaret Langdon, who learned her 
names from Mary Haas -- Ch....SHAH (i.e., like Chitty Chitty Bang 
Bang...unless we should now start calling that "shitty").

Since I'm writing, I'll tell you that I'm currently attending a 
conference with many ethnic Chumash people, and still lots of people are 
saying SHOEmash. Arg.

Pam
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-- 
Pamela Munro,
Professor, Linguistics, UCLA
UCLA Box 951543
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/munro/munro.htm