Staunton, VA
Drew Danielson
drew.danielson at CMU.EDU
Mon Dec 4 23:01:08 UTC 2000
From
http://www.stauntonva.org/History/Staunton_Trivia/staunton_trivia.html
"Staunton (pronounced STAN-ton) was named for Lady Rebecca Staunton,
wife of the Colonial Governor of Virginia William Gooch. No one really
knows why Staunton is pronounced the way that it is. Some believe that
the pronunciation is because "that is the way that the family pronounced
the name (although Staunton descendants pronounce the "u".) It has also
been suggested that since most area settlers were Scots-Irish and
Germans and not English like the Staunton name that when Staunton was
pronounced by those with Irish and/or German accents, it sounded like it
did not contain a "u". It is anyone's guess!"
David Bergdahl wrote:
>
> "Ironically, there's a city called Staunton not too far up the road from
> Buena Vista, but they pronounce that name /stan t'n/ as in Elizabeth
> Cady Stanton, rather than /stahn t'n/ as one would expect based on the
> spelling. Maybe Appalachian Virginians have some confusion over the
> phonetic value of the letter U... :)"
>
> Staunton, founded 1732, is the birthplace of Pres. Wilson so a bio might
> comment on the pronunciation of the name.
> -- db
> ___________________________________________________________
> David Bergdahl einstein at frognet.net tel: (740) 592-1617
> home page: http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~bergdahl
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