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From: jeb@eisx.UUCP (Jim Beckman)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: San Joz, etc.
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Date: Mon, 22-Aug-83 10:58:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 22 10:58:02 1983
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windy* asked for other places with names that change pronunciation.  
This doesn't exactly hit the mark, but it comes close.  There is a
river in Kansas called the 'Marais des Cygnes'.  (Some parts of Kansas
have a lot of French-descended people)  The accepted pronunciation,
at least what I learned, was Mare-uh-des-seen with a primary accent
on the last syllable, secondary on the first.  One of the funniest
incidents (but not the only one) broadcast by the little radio
station that served my hometown occurred when the news announcer
hadn't read the news over beforehand, and ran into that name on
the air.  I can't reproduce his attempt, but it must have had at
least 8 or 9 syllables.

We also got a chuckle out of this guy's repeated references to
the amount of 'derbus' left in the streets after a thunder storm.

Another thought:  the Arkansas River flows across southern Kansas,
where it is widely referred to as the 'Ar-Kansas' River.  The
Kansas River itself, in the northeast part of the state, is
often called the 'Kaw'.