Dee Dee wrote:
>
> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
> news:0B_ui.4$Ns6.2@trnddc01...
>> hahabogus wrote on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:19:55 GMT:
>>
>> ??>> How do locals pronounce New Prague?
>> ??>>
>> h> The way it is supposed to be said. Why would the locals
>> h> pronounce it wrong? P.S. If you hear New Pittsburg you are
>> h> in the wrong town.
>>
>> If you are going to be in a town and want to avoid argument, you might
>> pronounce the name like the locals. Watch out for Des Moines, Cairo IL and
>> GA, Pierre SD etc.:-)
>>
>> James Silverton
>> Potomac, Maryland
>>
>> E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
>
> Again my story about my cousin (d. age 105) who told me that she was born in
> Puerto Rico. It was years before I got onto it that it was Puerto Rico, WV.
> Another I like and there are many in WV, is Berlin.
>
> But the one I like best is a town in VA,"Rio." Pronounce it Rye-oh.

ver-sails IN (Versailles)

buh-GO-duh TX (Bogota)


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