FW: Houston Street (fwd)

[Peter A. McGraw]

Oops--this was meant for the list.  --PMc

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Date: Monday, February 3, 2003 8:42 AM -0800rrom: "Peter A. McGraw"
<pmcgraw at linfield.edu>
To: abatefr at earthlink.net
Subject: Re: FW: Houston Street

What seems mysterious to me is not that there should be /aw/ vs. /u/
variants of a name spelled "Houston," but where the /ju/~/iw/ variant came
from.  You'd expect a name pronounced this way would be spelled "Huston."

Peter Mc.

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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu

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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu