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[Laurence Horn]

At 7:32 PM -0400 5/13/10, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>That's how the narrator of last night's History Channel epsiode of _America:
>The Story of Us_ pronounces "Antietam." Like if you're Tatum O'Neal's niece
>or nephew.
>
>My wife reports hearing "archipelago" pronounced by the narrator of a
>different documentary as
>/ar kI p@ 'la go/.
>
Well, it could have been worse--Archie (as in Bunker, or Moore) Pelago.

LH

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