Jap

[Wilson Gray]

FWIW, relatives of mine living in the Wake County region of North
Carolina have the pronunciation, "JAY pan," for "Japan." When I first
heard it, I thought that the speaker was just joking, since the string
of letters j-a-p-a-n does have "JAY pan" as a possible pronunciation.
But everybody in the conversation was saying "JAY pan" and nobody was
using "juh-PAN."

-Wilson Gray

On 5/26/05, Bethany K. Dumas <dumasb at utkux.utcc.utk.edu> wrote:
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> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: Jap
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> When the language departments merged at UT a few years ago, the new
> department was named Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures - MFLL,
> pronounced, of couse, by everyone except MFLL faculty as (muffle).
>
> Bethany
>
> On Wed, 25 May 2005, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>
> >And when Spanish and Portuguese split off at MSU recently, the new
> >French, Italian, and Classics Department could not be FIC, and
> >appartent oversensitivity to Germanic. (And Spanish and Portuguese is
> >not SAP either.) Luckily The Department of Linguistics, Germanic,
> >Slavic, Asian and African Languages is LGSAAL, hard to make into
> >anything (or pronounce for that matter).
> >
> >dInIs
>


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-Wilson Gray