Another "$100 Misunderstanding" (1)

[Bethany K. Dumas]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Wilson Gray wrote:

>is clearly the preferred - by me, any way - pronunciation.;-) BTW, my
>late stepfather, a native of Saint louis, though of Arkansas ancestry,
>made this odd distinction in his speech: noun = "IN veh lup"; verb =
>"in VEH lup." Of course, there's nothing of interest in his verb form.
>But I've always felt that he was the only English-speaker on earth or
>in Saint Louis, at least, to use that peculiar pronunciation of the
>noun. And it's also odd that he was able to resist all his life the
>pressure to to switch to one or the other of the "correct"
>pronunciations.

Is joke?

Bethany