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

[Margaret Winters]

One of Woody Guthrie's songs pronounces the holiday Chanuky [i].

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MARGARET E WINTERS
Former Provost
Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI  48202

mewinters at wayne.edu

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[EXTERNAL]

Something I am curious about:
There is a song with the words       Home boys home that's where I want to be       Home boys home back in God's country       The ash and the oak and the weeping willow tree        And the grass grows green back in North Ameri--kee
I don't know much about this song, and I can't offhand thank of any other uses of "Ameri--kee".  A nonce usage?

James Landau
jjjrlandau at netscape.com

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