Acme--two syllables or three? :)

[Beverly Flanigan]

Interesting.  My father (born in MN,1900) also said "battries."  Is this
common?

At 08:03 AM 7/23/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Acme markets are also prominent in Philadelphia and
>some people there use the three syllable
>pronunciation. Growing up I associated it with old
>people because my grandmother was the only I knew who
>said it that way. Don't know how current it is.
>
>She also pronounced batteries (specifically the
>plural--don't remember her ever using the singular) as
>''battries'' with two syllables.
>
>Ed
>
>--- Sam Clements <SClements at NEO.RR.COM> wrote:
> > I live in Akron, Ohio.  I moved here in 1971.  I
> > grew up in Arllington, VA. 1947-1964.  I also had
> > connections to Danville, VA. 1945-1966.
> >
> > The word "Acme" is the name of a local supermarket
> > chain in the Akron area.  It's been the hometown
> > market since 1910 or so.
> >
> > I just noticed that some of my contemporaries, who
> > were born and raise here in Akron pronounce the name
> > of the market as
> >
> >     AK-a-me
> >
> > I'm sorry if I can't do it in the right kind of
> > symbols/letters so that you can understand it
> > better.  The accent is on the first syllable, and
> > they pronounce it as if it has three syllables.
> >
> > Why do they say this?  Is it local to Ohio?
> >
> > As an addenda, two out of the three people who say
> > it this way are college educated and Jewish.  I
> > don't know if that's any help, but it's factual.
> > All three are locally born.
> >
> > Sam Clements
> >
>
>
>
>
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