| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 14, 2001, 23:39 |
Frank George Valoczy scripsit:
My mother, back in the 40's, made a collection of how streetcar
conductors pronounced the name of Goethe Street in Detroit.
We had /giti/ and /gowti/, but the price specimen was /gow'iT/!
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
--Douglas Hofstadter