>If you ever drive through Pennsylvania on Interstate 80, you will go
>through DuBois--that's Dew Boyce to Pennsylvanians. No one
>will have any idea where you are talking about if you ask for
>directions to DuBuah.
I used to know a young lady who had that last name and pronounced it in the
Dew Boyce manner.
Among my relatives, some pronounce the family name as Foreman. A reaction
to anti German sentiment during World War I. They also changed it from
Fuhrmann to Fuhrman so it wouldn't look German. My father and his brother
put the second n back when they got back from WW2.
I wonder if that is why the people in Berlin, WI put the emphasis on the
wrong syllable.
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