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Subject: Re: San Joz, etc. - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 00:17:41 EDT
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trsvax!ljw    Sep 29 08:34:00 1983

The correct pronunciation of Louisville, Kentucky, if you believe the
bumper stickers, is "Louavul".  Actually, mostly those on the east end
of town use that pronounciation.  Those on the southwest part and lively
Shively area usually use the "Loueeville" pronounciation, as do many
of the blacks in West Louisville.  Thus you can usually tell where a
Louisvillian is from (or what part of town influences him/her most) by
how he/she pronounces the name.

On the other hand, Louisville, Nebraska (known most for its habit of 
padlocking churches that do not think church schools should be required to
have 98% of the books in its library, as required by an anti-religious state
law, to be on non-religious subjects) is pronounced the same as Lewisville,
Texas.

Getting back to "San Joz", the original title of this series of articles,
here is a question for you -- is a person from Cupertino a Cupertinan or a
Cupertinian?  Believe it or not, the city council there did not know and
used both interchangeably in its newsletter.  At one point they surveyed
the citizens (including myself) to see what they prefered, but I do not
think they ever published the results.

(For those who do not know, Cupertino is a suburb of San Jose and Sunnyvale,
and is a former fruit orchard -- a fact that explains a lot about the people
who live there!)

		     Larry J. West (former Louisvillian and Cupertin[i]an)
		     (presently living in Foat Wuth, Taxus)