Oh, good, Paul..................a new thread!
If you're talking about Amurricans mispronouncing names, let's start with
the town near where I lived in Illinois for a few years. The French would
clearly say "Des Plaines" is pronounced "Day Plen", but the locals all call
it "Dess Planes" or even "Dissplanes"........
Lawrie
-----Original Message-----
From: KILE, PAUL D <Paul.Kile@Aerojet.com>
To: 'mgs@autox.team.net' <mgs@autox.team.net>
Cc: 'Lawrie@Britcars.com' <Lawrie@britcars.com>
Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 4:21 PM
Subject: RE: trivia
>To heck with the highfalutin' French pronounciations of BEAULIEU! I go
>with the way the locals pronounce it. Lawrie is a transplanted Brit
>that I trust implicitly with pronounciations of UK names, and if he says
>BYOOLEY, that's it. I have also spoken to Clive Wheatley and Syd Beer
>recently in the UK, and they both referred to the BYOOLEY autojumble
>(swapmeet to us 'murricans).
>
>This reminds me of several Spanish derived names here in the West, San
>Pedro (near Los Angeles) and Casa Grande, in Arizona. If you are a
>linguist and go with the strict pronounciations of the towns:
>SAHN PAY-DROH
>CAH-SAH GRAN-DEH
>You would be laughed out of both towns. The locals call them:
>SAN PEE-DROW
>CASSA GRAND
>
>Cheers, PK
>
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