"San Antone"

[Paul A Johnston, Jr.]

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From: "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU>
Date: Monday, January 23, 2006 12:04 pm
Subject: Re: "San Antone"

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> I dunno. The earliest pronunciation I recall (many years before I
> eventually lived there) was something like "Santonia."
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> Bethany
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> I remember Guy Bailey talking about the different pronunciations of San Antonio in an ADS paper he did on South Texas English about '88;  "Santonia" was the most localized pronunciation, and "San Antone", as i remember it, was used by
 people in the middle of the social scale.

Paul Johnston

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