[thechat] Odd Ball Sports

Joel D Canfield joel at spinhead.com
Fri Dec 1 09:07:01 CST 2006


> The city of Humble, Texas .... [the "H" is silent]

can you say 'Uriah Heep' ?

> The street of Kuykendahl .... [locals add an "R" to the pronunciation,
> as 'Kirk-n-Doll']

I never got that one. Must be the same 'r' as in 'muh HAIR' (Mexia,
which you'd think would be pronounced 'meh HEE ah' since it's named
after a Mexican general, but, no, not in Texas . . . )

> The oldest dance hall in Texas; Gruene Hall .... [this one actually
> still manages to annoy me as it is {IMVHO wrongly} pronounced 
> as 'Green
> Hall']
> 
> 
> 
> RonL.
> 
> (Who once knew a philologist who nearly injured some locals 
> in Kentucky
> for mispronouncing the name of their very own town!  Yup!  Pity the
> fools living in 'Ver-SAY-Lees' Kentucky!)
> 
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