City Names

[Dennis R. Preston]

How could y'all forget Bret Favre (FAHRV) of the Packers? I recommend we
should re-name them the Green Bay Metathesizers. Let's see what silly
headgear they can come up with then!

dInIs

>And if you drive through Montana, you will find "Hell-IN-uh" (Helena),
>"HAV-ur" (Havre), and "SHOAT-oe" (Choteau).
>
>Rebecca Meyer (originally from Hav-ur)
>San Diego
>
>---------------
>At 06:21 PM 99/12/03 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>Canada's policy of bilingualism is all very well, but it just doesn't
>>reach far enough to handle U.S. place names with French antecedents.
>[...]
>>So maybe you think you're being a "dumb Canuck", but whoever the dumbest
>>Cancuk may be, in all of Canada there's nobody dumb enough to beat an
>>ordinary Midwesterner when it comes to fancy mispronunciations.
>>
>>-- mike salovesh      <salovesh at niu.edu>      PEACE !!!
>>
>>


Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
preston at pilot.msu.edu
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