BALLIOL (was: Goethe, was: Which and Falaqa)

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Dec 6 19:32:52 UTC 2002


At 11:26 AM -0500 12/6/02, THOMAS M. PAIKEDAY wrote:
>  Incidentally, I'm reminded of "Balliol St." in Toronto
>which is correctly pronounced locally as (buh.LOIL) unless that has changed
>in recent times!
>

Can that be right?  Looks like another entry for the
"Favre"/"Malivai" metathesis file.
And it doesn't even have the excuse of "It's my name, and I can
pronounce it that way if I want to!"

Larry



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