arKANsas

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

Are you sure she wasn't referring to the residents of the state: ArKANsans?

-Matt Gordon
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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Barbara Need [bhneed at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 6:10 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: arKANsas

I just heard Sen Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) pronounce the name of her
state arKANsas with the stress on the sedon syllable, and the final s!

Barbara Need

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