theatre

[Richard Petty Deegan]

Rockville Centre was such before it got a Bishop--I played against school
teams from Rockville Centre in the fifties.
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From: "Robert Kelly" <kelly at BARD.EDU>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: theatre


> years ago it was Rockville Center;  I grew up nearby, and it was always
> spelled in the American fashion, even after it became a diocese of the RC
> church, which has entitled many a place to upscale its name...
>
> of course it was pronounced, as it mostly still is, as homophone of the
> carminative pod 'senna' with usually not even a trace of glottalization to
> mark the demise of intervocalic T in the presence of nasalization
>
> so however they spell it, it will fail to achieve Brit status.
>
> RK
>
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, David Bergdahl wrote:
>
> > On Long Island there's "Rockville Centre, NY" which I suppose is meant
> > to sound tonier with the -re, at least that's what we kids in Valley
> > Stream thought ... [which I've been told was "Rum Junctioion" before the
> > real estate guys got a hold of it]
> >
> > Laurence Horn wrote:
> >
> > > Nobody's mentioned the fact that there's a related "pretentious" or
> > > upscale use of CENTRE in the U.S. (as opposed to Britain and Canada
> > > where it is of course the standard spellling).  I've come across
> > > various uses of this for city or shopping "centres", probably in some
> > > trendy suburban setting, although I can't think of where at the
> > > moment.  Can anyone?
> > >
> > > larry
> >
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