Re: Loge, etc. (Was: Re: Graphemes defined)

--- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:

> Nicholas Bodley scripsit:
>
> > There was a report this morning on National Public
> Radio from Hamtramck,
> > Mich. Surely enough, it was consistently
> [mis]pronounced "Hamtramick"...
>
> I only knew one person (now dead) who lived there,
> but he *did*
> say "Hamtramick", so perhaps that's correct, or at
> least acceptable.
> My next-door neighbor broke me of saying
> "Lou-eez-i-an-a" like a Yankee
> (even though I am one) and inculcated "Looz-i-an-a".
> And how many people
> (Hi, clsn!) know that Pierre, South Dakota is
> pronounced "Peer"?

--Reply--
I usually say *Louisiana* as /Lwee-zh��h-nah/, close
to the French manner.
Merci beaucoup!

Robert Lloyd Wheelock
Augusta, ME U.S.A.





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