quest for info/suggestions. re: dialects

[Bob Fitzke]

My former wife, a Biloxi native, pronounced it Buh-lux-ee, accent on the second
"syllable" and no discernible first "i". So did all the other natives I heard.
Ain't no "lox" in Biloxi.

Bob

Pafra & Scott Catledge wrote:

> When I started this with my comment on Verr-sales, I was poking fun at the
> ethnocentric persons who think that there is only one proper way to
> pronounce a place-name--no matter in what ethnocultural surroundings it is
> found.  The only exception I can think of is Biloxi--called by all natives
> (and formerly by all who wished to keep their full complement of teeth;
> they're more lenient with all the tourists about now) as buh-luck-see NOT
> buh-lock-see.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrea Vine <avine at NETSCAPE.COM>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 12:03 PM
> Subject: Re: quest for info/suggestions. re: dialects
>
> > Beverly Flanigan wrote:
> > >
> > > I am aware of the American pronunciation of Versailles; there's also one
> in
> > > Indiana and one in Ohio.  But--since these cities aren't in France, why
> > > should they be pronounced in French?  The English have anglicized French
> > > words since the Norman Conquest; why shouldn't we?  Nor do we have to
> > > follow the BritEng way of pronouncing, or spelling, names: Thus,
> Greenwich,
> > > England, is [grinwICH] Connecticut, but [grEnICH] Village, New York; and
> we
> >
> > I lived in Connecticut for 10 years and never heard anyone say [grinwICH].
> I
> > have never even been tempted to pronounce it that way.  It sounds like
> some sort
> > of organic sandwich (pronounce [SAENich]) which is good for the
> environment.
> >
> > Andrea