In article . 131,
Amarantha wrote:

Melba's Jammin' wrote in news:barbschaller-
:

In article ,
"KW" keith_warrennospamatallteldotnet wrote:

My deep south (Central Alabama) grandparents often fought over this very
thing. Memaw claimed the long a variant (Croppie)

Errr, long a? Wouldn't that make it a CRAY-pee?



I thought long 'a' would be 'aa', and 'ay' a dipthong (really 'ei').

But I'm only a wannabe amateur linguist, and could stand to be corrected

K

LOL. I didn't know a better way to spell it. I was thinking of
crayfish, Cray Research, and Crayola crayons. :-) I see "aa" and I'm
thinking Baa-Baa Blacksheep.

OB Food: Six jars of blackberry jam just came from the canner. More
peach jam today (Amaretto Peach, I'm thinking); nectarine jam is done
and delicious. Tomatoes are in my future tomorrow and Sunday.
--
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pics of Ronald McDonald House dinner posted 6-24-2007

In article ,
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:

"Melba's Jammin'" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:

Any fisherpersons in your circle of acquaintances? If so, how do they
pronounce this fish:

crappie

Do they turn it into "croppie", to avoid the bad word that will bring sin
and destruction upon their houses?

No, we say "croppie" because that's the correct way to pronounce it. "-)
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ


Absurd. You say it that way out of some fake sense of propriety. If you
pronounced "map" like "mop", any good English teacher would beat you with a
ruler, and be totally justified in doing so.

Nah, I said it that way out of some true sense of whimsy and poking fun.

Curiousity question: What do you do when you visit towns or cities
where the name of the city or town isn't pronounced correctly; i.e., the
way it is elsewhere? I'm not saying this well. What I'm thinking of
are the communities of Lima, Ohio and New Prague, Minnesota. I don't
know what the Ohioans would say if you said LEEma, but the folks in New
Prague would know you don't know if you said New PRAHgue ‹ or Novy
Praha. "-) But they probably wouldn't correct you. On second thought,
they probably *would* correct you. Are you going to tell them they're
wrong?

How right do you want to be? Isn't "fisherpersons" redundant?

(Ducks, runs, and goes back to the kettles and jars.)
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com - story and
pics of Ronald McDonald House dinner posted 6-24-2007

"Melba's Jammin'" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:

"Melba's Jammin'" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:

Any fisherpersons in your circle of acquaintances? If so, how do they
pronounce this fish:

crappie

Do they turn it into "croppie", to avoid the bad word that will bring
sin
and destruction upon their houses?

No, we say "croppie" because that's the correct way to pronounce it.
"-)
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ


Absurd. You say it that way out of some fake sense of propriety. If you
pronounced "map" like "mop", any good English teacher would beat you with
a
ruler, and be totally justified in doing so.

Nah, I said it that way out of some true sense of whimsy and poking fun.

Curiousity question: What do you do when you visit towns or cities
where the name of the city or town isn't pronounced correctly; i.e., the
way it is elsewhere? I'm not saying this well. What I'm thinking of
are the communities of Lima, Ohio and New Prague, Minnesota. I don't
know what the Ohioans would say if you said LEEma, but the folks in New
Prague would know you don't know if you said New PRAHgue ‹ or Novy
Praha. "-) But they probably wouldn't correct you. On second thought,
they probably *would* correct you. Are you going to tell them they're
wrong?

How right do you want to be? Isn't "fisherpersons" redundant?

(Ducks, runs, and goes back to the kettles and jars.)


How do locals pronounce New Prague?

Melba's wrote on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:52:33 -0500:

?? Melba's Jammin' wrote in
news:barbschaller-
?? :
??
?? In article ,
?? "KW" keith_warrennospamatallteldotnet wrote:
??
?? My deep south (Central Alabama) grandparents often
?? fought over this very thing. Memaw claimed the long a
?? variant (Croppie)
??
?? Errr, long a? Wouldn't that make it a CRAY-pee?
??
?? I thought long 'a' would be 'aa', and 'ay' a dipthong
?? (really 'ei').
??
?? But I'm only a wannabe amateur linguist, and could stand
?? to be corrected
??
?? K

MsJ LOL. I didn't know a better way to spell it. I was
MsJ thinking of crayfish, Cray Research, and Crayola crayons.
MsJ :-) I see "aa" and I'm thinking Baa-Baa Blacksheep.

If you want to have a perhaps more spirited discussion you might
go to alt.english.usage or alt.usage.english. One of those, and
I forget which, has distinctly pugnacious posts. It's a pity
that, outside specialists, so few know the IPA phonetic alphabet
or, better for a text newsgroup, SAMPA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMPA_chart_for_English

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in news:Vn_ui.13728
:

How do locals pronounce New Prague?


The way it is supposed to be said. Why would the locals pronounce it wrong?
P.S. If you hear New Pittsburg you are in the wrong town.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
Elbonian Folklore

hahabogus wrote on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:19:55 GMT:

?? How do locals pronounce New Prague?
??
h The way it is supposed to be said. Why would the locals
h pronounce it wrong? P.S. If you hear New Pittsburg you are
h in the wrong town.

If you are going to be in a town and want to avoid argument, you
might pronounce the name like the locals. Watch out for Des
Moines, Cairo IL and GA, Pierre SD etc.:-)

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

"James Silverton" wrote in news:0B_ui.4
$Ns6.2@trnddc01:

hahabogus wrote on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:19:55 GMT:

?? How do locals pronounce New Prague?
??
h The way it is supposed to be said. Why would the locals
h pronounce it wrong? P.S. If you hear New Pittsburg you are
h in the wrong town.

If you are going to be in a town and want to avoid argument, you
might pronounce the name like the locals. Watch out for Des
Moines, Cairo IL and GA, Pierre SD etc.:-)

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not



since I grasp the concept of foriegn language names those names do not
throw me for a loop.

The concept you can spell a name Smith and pronounce it BugleAndDrumCorps
is not outside my comprehension....English isn't the most commonly spoken
language on the planet. AFAIK Mandrin is. So how's your chinese
pronunciation?

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
Elbonian Folklore

"James Silverton" wrote in message
news:0B_ui.4$Ns6.2@trnddc01...
hahabogus wrote on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:19:55 GMT:

?? How do locals pronounce New Prague?
??
h The way it is supposed to be said. Why would the locals
h pronounce it wrong? P.S. If you hear New Pittsburg you are
h in the wrong town.

If you are going to be in a town and want to avoid argument, you might
pronounce the name like the locals. Watch out for Des Moines, Cairo IL and
GA, Pierre SD etc.:-)

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

Again my story about my cousin (d. age 105) who told me that she was born in
Puerto Rico. It was years before I got onto it that it was Puerto Rico, WV.
Another I like and there are many in WV, is Berlin.

But the one I like best is a town in VA,"Rio." Pronounce it Rye-oh.
Dee Dee

In article 0B_ui.4$Ns6.2@trnddc01,
says...
?? How do locals pronounce New Prague?
??
h The way it is supposed to be said. Why would the locals
h pronounce it wrong? P.S. If you hear New Pittsburg you are
h in the wrong town.

If you are going to be in a town and want to avoid argument, you
might pronounce the name like the locals. Watch out for Des
Moines, Cairo IL and GA, Pierre SD etc.:-)




Then there are "loo-ee-ville" and a few "lew-is-villes".

--
Peter Aitken

Dee Dee wrote:

"James Silverton" wrote in message
news:0B_ui.4$Ns6.2@trnddc01...
hahabogus wrote on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:19:55 GMT:

?? How do locals pronounce New Prague?
??
h The way it is supposed to be said. Why would the locals
h pronounce it wrong? P.S. If you hear New Pittsburg you are
h in the wrong town.

If you are going to be in a town and want to avoid argument, you might
pronounce the name like the locals. Watch out for Des Moines, Cairo IL and
GA, Pierre SD etc.:-)

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

Again my story about my cousin (d. age 105) who told me that she was born in
Puerto Rico. It was years before I got onto it that it was Puerto Rico, WV.
Another I like and there are many in WV, is Berlin.

But the one I like best is a town in VA,"Rio." Pronounce it Rye-oh.

ver-sails IN (Versailles)

buh-GO-duh TX (Bogota)


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Except in Thunderbird, which can't filter that well.
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In article ,
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:

"Melba's Jammin'" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:

"Melba's Jammin'" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:

Any fisherpersons in your circle of acquaintances? If so, how do they
pronounce this fish:

crappie

Do they turn it into "croppie", to avoid the bad word that will bring
sin
and destruction upon their houses?

No, we say "croppie" because that's the correct way to pronounce it.
"-)
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ


Absurd. You say it that way out of some fake sense of propriety. If you
pronounced "map" like "mop", any good English teacher would beat you with
a
ruler, and be totally justified in doing so.

Nah, I said it that way out of some true sense of whimsy and poking fun.

Curiousity question: What do you do when you visit towns or cities
where the name of the city or town isn't pronounced correctly; i.e., the
way it is elsewhere? I'm not saying this well. What I'm thinking of
are the communities of Lima, Ohio and New Prague, Minnesota. I don't
know what the Ohioans would say if you said LEEma, but the folks in New
Prague would know you don't know if you said New PRAHgue ‹ or Novy
Praha. "-) But they probably wouldn't correct you. On second thought,
they probably *would* correct you. Are you going to tell them they're
wrong?

How right do you want to be? Isn't "fisherpersons" redundant?

(Ducks, runs, and goes back to the kettles and jars.)


How do locals pronounce New Prague?

Whoops, I left that out. They say New PRAYgue.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com - story and
pics of Ronald McDonald House dinner posted 6-24-2007

In article ,
"Dee Dee" wrote:

Again my story about my cousin (d. age 105) who told me that she was born in
Puerto Rico. It was years before I got onto it that it was Puerto Rico, WV.
Another I like and there are many in WV, is Berlin.

Huh. I thought that was water at 212 degrees. "The water's berlin',
Mother."

--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com - story and
pics of Ronald McDonald House dinner posted 6-24-2007

"Melba's Jammin'" wrote in message
...

How do locals pronounce New Prague?

Whoops, I left that out. They say New PRAYgue.


Oy.

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:32:55 GMT, hahabogus wrote:

"James Silverton" wrote in news:0B_ui.4
$Ns6.2@trnddc01:

hahabogus wrote on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:19:55 GMT:

?? How do locals pronounce New Prague?
??
h The way it is supposed to be said. Why would the locals
h pronounce it wrong? P.S. If you hear New Pittsburg you are
h in the wrong town.

If you are going to be in a town and want to avoid argument, you
might pronounce the name like the locals. Watch out for Des
Moines, Cairo IL and GA, Pierre SD etc.:-)

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not



since I grasp the concept of foriegn language names those names do not
throw me for a loop.

The concept you can spell a name Smith and pronounce it BugleAndDrumCorps
is not outside my comprehension....English isn't the most commonly spoken
language on the planet. AFAIK Mandrin is. So how's your chinese
pronunciation?

actually, james' mandarin pronunciation might be pretty good.

your pal,
blake

In article ,
Melba's Jammin' wrote:

snipped
Curiousity question: What do you do when you visit towns or cities
where the name of the city or town isn't pronounced correctly; i.e., the
way it is elsewhere? I'm not saying this well. What I'm thinking of
are the communities of Lima, Ohio and New Prague, Minnesota. I don't
know what the Ohioans would say if you said LEEma, but the folks in New
Prague would know you don't know if you said New PRAHgue ‹ or Novy
Praha. "-) But they probably wouldn't correct you. On second thought,
they probably *would* correct you. Are you going to tell them they're
wrong?

We have a plethora of interestingly pronounced names hereabouts:

Sequim (Skwim), home of the Lavender Festival
Tulalip (Tu-LAY-lip)
Puyallup (PEW-wallup)
Cheney (Chee-ney), NOT named for the VP

OB Food: The Puyallup Fair in September is going trans-fat-free. Folks
can eat funnel cakes, deep-fried Snickers bars, and corn dogs with
slightly less guilt.

Cindy, who has yet to do the Puyallup Fair

--
C.J. Fuller

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