Train station

[Robert S. Wachal]

Possibly as a short form of 'deposition'?

At 08:34 AM 2/7/01 -0600, you wrote:
>I've heard only 'DEE-po' both for Home Depot and for the local bus depot (at
>least, I grew up calling it the bus depot, but don't know if that's changed
>in recent years).  'DEH-po' doesn't sound strange to me, but I can't say
>where or in what context I've heard it.
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>Victoria
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>Victoria Neufeldt
>1533 Early Drive
>Saskatoon, Sask.
>S7H 3K1
>Canada
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
>> Of Lynne Murphy
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 5:25 AM
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Train station
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>> --On Tuesday, February 6, 2001 5:21 pm +0800 Laurence Horn
>> <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>> > As my son was just pointing to me after reading these messages,
>> > "depot" is alive and well for anyone in hailing distance of a "Home
>> > Depot" store.  Does the chain extend to the U.K., and if so, is it
>> > called "Home DEH-po" there?
>> >
>> > larry
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>> No Home Depot here.  They do have them in Canada--are they 'DEH-po' there?
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>> M Lynne Murphy
>> Lecturer in Linguistics
>> School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
>> University of Sussex
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>> UK
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