City Names

[James Smith]

Just from what I've seen on t.v. news, most
American-Italians with "gli" in their name seem to
have have gone to "velar g" - syllable separation -
"li".  I know I've heard this several times recently,
but specific names escape me.

JIM

--- "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU> wrote:
> Although she is proud of her Sicilian heritage, my
> wife (the former Carol
> Guagliardo) finds some comfort in not hearing the
> disasters of her name now
> that she is a Preston.
>
> She reports some modifications that even suggested
> that speakers looked no
> further than the first two or three letters.
>
> dInIs
>
> >I believe our dear Brett Favre was born and raised
> in Mississippi and
> >brought his unusual pronunciation with him.
> Certainly, Green Bay residents
> >stumbled over the pronunciation in the early days,
> just as other people
> >still do.
> >
> >French names are not the only ones with a variety
> of mispronunciations--we
> >don't even want to get started Spanish names! As a
> high school student of
> >Spanish I and II, I was shocked to hear La Junta,
> CO, pronounced with the
> >English J!
> >
> >Amy
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Dennis R. Preston <preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU>
> >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >Date: Friday, December 03, 1999 5:51 PM
> >Subject: Re: City Names
> >
> >
> >>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
> >>Office: (517)353-0740
> >>Fax: (517)432-2736
>

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