Klahanie (street)

[David Robertson]

Thanks to some students in UVic's LING 401 class, I've learned that the 
street name "Klahanie" in Victoria is pronounced "kluh-HAN-ee".  

The stress has moved away from the first syllable, where it's located in 
Jargon.  The same thing happened with that neighborhood name in 
Kamloops, "Sahali" ("suh-HAL-ee").

And the recent Canadian "short A" for "foreign A" is now used, though 
originally the "A" sound seems to have been more like "ah" in most Jargon 
varieties.  Compare "Mazda" and "pasta" on each side of the border 
nowadays...

--Dave R

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