accent or mispronounciation? (was RE: [thechat]Chile'stennisfighting for the medals)
javier velasco
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Tue Aug 24 08:20:37 CDT 2004
Luther, Ron wrote:
>Sabrina Dent noted:
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>>>That would be Raphaels Park to you and me. I got *laughed at* when I
>>>read the sign correctly, and pronounced it locally ever after.
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>Yup. I used to live close to Kuykendahl Road. (Locally pronounced
>'Kirk-n-doll' although I still haven't figgered out where that 'r'
>comes from.) And the city of Humble, Texas has a silent 'H'.
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Hey, I recently worked with a teacher named Kuykendall, and he would
anwser the phone: "Kirk-n-dahl speaking "... I never understood where
that r came from either.
curious...
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