: Learn to speak Wisconsin

[Scot LaFaive]

Well, that wouldn't be very easy on us poor whities who must continually
struggle with such difficult names as "Chippewa Falls."

Scot


>From: "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: : Learn to speak Wisconsin
>Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 13:37:21 -0400
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>Or we could change all non-Native American names
>(not just the Anglo-Saxon ones, although I would
>very much hate losing "Kossuth") back to Native
>American ones and let Native Americans slap
>anybody who pronounces them wrong.
>
>Wouldn't this be historically fairer?
>
>dInIs
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> >We should change all Indian origin names to Anglo-Saxon names to make it
> >easy for everyone to learn and speak them. Then we'd never have to "slap"
> >anyone.
> >
> >Scot
> >
> >
> >>From: Susan Rosine <basenjiluvr at MSN.COM>
> >>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >>Subject: Re: : Learn to speak Wisconsin
> >>Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 11:20:21 -0600
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> >>Guess Chicagoans would have a problem in Washington state too, with its
>NW
> >>Indian names, including:
> >>Puyallup
> >>Mukilteo
> >>Sequim
> >>Yakima
> >>Skagit Island
> >>Snoqualmie
> >>Sammamish
> >>Issaquah
> >>
> >>Date:    Fri, 7 Sep 2007 22:10:17 -0400
> >>From:    Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIO.EDU>
> >>Subject: Re: Learn to speak Wisconsin
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> >>These pronunciations are no problem for us Minnesotans; we have an
> >>abundance of Native Indian place names ourselves (Ojibwe and Dakota
>Sioux).
> >>
> >>At 09:53 PM 9/7/2007, you wrote:
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> >>  >Poster:       Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
> >>  >Subject:      Learn to speak Wisconsin
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> >>  >
> >>  >The below from the Chicago Tribune
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>  >Learn to speak Wisconsin
> >>  >Posted by Toni Salama at 8 a.m. CDT
> >>  >
> >>  >Some Wisconsin place names are downright intimidating. If they're not
> >>  >out-and-out tongue-twisters, their spelling can stump even the most
> >>  >lingually gifted among us.
> >>  >
> >>  >I guess you have to expect that in a state whose very name,
>Wisconsin, is
> >>  >the English spelling of a French version of an Indian name for the
>river
> >>  >that runs through the center of the state.
> >>  >
> >>  >To the rescue comes MissPronouncer.com, where a click on Wisconsin
>place
> >>  >names is rewarded with audio of the correct pronunciation.
> >>  >
> >>  >Among the trickiest problems solved:
> >>  >
> >>  >Ashwaubenon
> >>  >Chequamegon
> >>  >Kaukauna
> >>  >Kinnickinnic
> >>  >Menomonie
> >>  >Mequon
> >>  >Oconomowoc
> >>  >Prairie du Chien
> >>  >St. Nazianz
> >>  >Trempealeau
> >>  >Weyauwega
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>  >Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
> >>  >See truespel.com - and the 4  truespel books plus "Occasional Poems"
>at
> >>  >authorhouse.com.
> >>
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>Dennis R. Preston
>University Distinguished Professor
>Department of English
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>Michigan State University
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>preston at msu.edu
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