At 7:30 PM -0500 3/25/01, Ittaob at AOL.COM wrote: >I'm a plus-50 native New Yorker, and I have never heard Houston Streeet >pronounced other than "hows-ton", except by tourists. "HAW-st at n Street" has actually served for some time as a shibboleth, like "Faneuil" in Boston. larry