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Thread #103764   Message #2118740
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
03-Aug-07 - 09:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions
Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions
"Bristol is an English city. {or a British city, or a city in the UK}"

All of the above.

Indiana has a lot of old-world names, often pronounced in ways that would puzzle old-worlders.

Milan, Indiana, is "MY-lun". Lafayette, Indiana, often comes out of uneducated mouths as "Lay-fee-ETTE".   Versailles, Indiana, is always "Ver-SALES".

And Indianapolis usually comes out "In-n-NAP-luhs".   And the big city in the political division to our south, on the Ohio River, is neither Lou-is-ville nor Lou-ee-ville, but "Lou-uh-vl", sort of rolled around in the mouth to the point where the "vl" is almost "wl".

And when I speak of "the political division to our south", I do not speak of the State of Kentucky. There IS no State of Kentucky. It's "the Commonwealth of Kentucky", influenced no doubt by "the Commonwealth of Virginia". Seems to me there's a commonwealth in New England too, but I'm too lazy to look it up right now.

And, not to neglect city names on the East Coast of the US, that great city in Maryland named for Lord Baltimore is locally "BAWL-mr" or "BAHL-mr".

You always wanted to know these things, I'm sure.

Dave Oesterreich