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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP
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Subject: Re: "Houston" pronunciation
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Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 12:31:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 26 12:31:27 1983
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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     People from Houston don't say "hue-ston", although other Texans do.
True Houstonites (God pity their poor souls) say "you-stun".

     Then there's always Pedernales State Park.  The Spanish name refers
to flint and is pronounced (excuse the awful Berlitzification) "pay-there-
NAH-lace".  The Texan pronunciation, however, is "Purd 'n Alice".