Learn to speak Wisconsin

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Mon Sep 10 14:30:45 UTC 2007


Oh, good. That's how I pronounce it in a song. Thanks.

m a m

On 9/9/07, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:


Residents of Jersey City in the vicinity of Communipaw Avenue
> pronounce it as you might expect: [k@ 'mju:n @ ,pO:] (like the first
> three syllables of "community" + "paw").
>
>

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