How to pronounce things

[Wallace Chafe]

Many years ago Bill Sturtevant went about collecting local pronunciations 
of tribal names. He didn't publish them, but some may have made their way 
into the Handbook. One that I particularly remember is Navajo with a low 
front vowel in the first syllable (as in nab), as opposed to you know what. 
It's cute to hear Europeans putting stress on the second syllable.

I stand corrected on Chitimacha. Seems I've been saying it wrong all these 
years. But surely the second ch is sh.

Wally