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Posted by Red Line to Glenmont on Mon Sep 4 00:55:36 2006, in response to Re: A (dumb) Question on Pronunciation, posted by Rail Blue on Sun Sep 3 13:41:19 2006. The county east of but also including small parts of Atlanta is DeKalb County, pronounced Dee Cab. Everyone I've ever known in Brooklyn has said De Kalb, not Day Kalb or Day Kahlb (though that is closer to the Dutch). Same with Van Wike. When I was a boy it was Van Wick, but in the 60s some traffic reporters starting saying it right. Same with the Kosh-oo-sko Bridge, which originally was pronounced Kos-key-osko Bridge. It's a Polish name and the former is more accurate. My father even insists that Cortelyou Road is accented on the first syllable, not, as most people do, on the second syllable. And though we lived on Westminster Road, many people improperly pronounced it "West Minister". The pharmacy on Foster Avenue was the "Westminister Pharmacy" on Westminster Road.And don't forget Bexar County, Texas, pronounced "Bear" (actually logical, because the "x" is the obsolete guttural spelling in Spanish, like a Spanish "j", so it if pronounced in Spanish would be "Bekhar" County. |
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