FW: Houston Street (fwd)

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:58 PM -0500 2/3/03, Mark A Mandel wrote:
>On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Peter A. McGraw wrote:
>
>#Oops--this was meant for the list.  --PMc
>#
>#---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>#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."
>
>Oh? I'd expect a word spelled "Huston" to be pronounced /'h^st at n/, with
>the first syllable rhyming with "bus".

But not if you're familiar with John and Angelica.

Larry