Folk Awareness oif Dialect

[Joe Pickett]

Our dictionaries--and most American dictionaries, Ithink-- are printed at a
plant in Versailles (Ver-SALES), Kentucky. It's near Lexington.






Ray Ott <Amcolph at AOL.COM>@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on 12/04/2000 09:48:45 AM

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#14.  Here in IL, of course, with  our Cairo=Kay-ro and
Marseilles=Mar-sales,
etc.
but everywhere in the Confederate Diaspora as well, I think.  The rigidly
English pronunciation of non-English spellings (In CA one is beginning to
hear such things as Buena Vista=Beeyuna Vista) springs from a determined
Nativism rather than mere ignorance.

Ray Ott