On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 10:36:53 AM UTC-6, wrote:
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> When things were back to normal I saw the story of a Quebec small town
> that was heart breaking. I sent a cheque to the mayor and I guess
> many others did too. I had a lovely letter many months later saying
> how touched they were to find non-Quebeckers would try to help.

I had never seen Quebeckers spelled with a "k" before, so I looked it up,
and it seems that is perfectly proper when referring to English speakers.
Somehow I had gotten it into my head that these days it was politically
correct to call all Quebecers, "Quebecois," which in Midwestern vernacular
would be pronounced Kuh-beck'-ees (I know it's keh-beck-kwah').

St. Louis has French roots, being named after King Louis IX, and there is
a large creek near here called the Courtois Creek. It is pronounced,
coat'-away. It's funny, the corruptions of names. There is Rolla, MO,
named after Raleigh, NC. Some settlers were from Raleigh, and they
pronounced the name, roll'-uh, so...

Cabool, MO is named after Kabul, Afghanistan, and is pronounced, kuh-bool',
and Cairo, IL is pronounced like the corn syrup, care'-oh.

--Bryan