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

[Stephen Goranson]

Given that this ship (less famous than the later ship with the same name) had reached Cape Verde Islands, where the language is Portugese, Portugal in Roman usage being Lusitania, and given that the telegraphic message was from a passenger bound to Australia, Matthew Arnold was attempting a pronunciation from the land of Oz............

anonymous
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It's also in one the ten American songs Aaron Copland set, as "South Americee."

Herb

On September 1, 2022, at 7:56 AM, Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu> wrote:

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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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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