[Ads-l] "I say...Lusitani-ay"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Serendipitously I notice that CNN's correspondent Amara Walker is
pronouncing the name of Jackson, MS, mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba as though his
surname ended in -ay.

She's said it at least twice. I don't know how hizzoner pronounces it.

JL

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 4:40 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting! And not only for the town's name. A family for one of whose
> daughters I pined in my adolescence was from Lake Charles.
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 4:37 PM Charles C Rice <charles.rice at louisiana.edu
> >
> wrote:
>
> > There is a small town of Iowa (Eye-way or Eye-uh-way) Louisiana, outside
> > Lake Charles, that has a notable black Mardi Gras run.
> >
> > Clai Rice
> >
> > Wilson wrote:
> > Amongst elderly colored people, such as the writer, the state of Iowa and
> > its university is known as "Ioway."
> > During Jim Crow, Southern states would pay to send black students to
> > Northern state universities, rather than admit them to the local state
> > universities. My other's sister nd several of my St. Louis friends. went
> to
> > "Ioway."
> >
> >
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