> Winsor Crosby [mailto:wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> My California elementary education told us that the Yoh-suh-mite
> pronunciation was brought to the state by all those ignorant
> easterners when any Californian knew the Native Americans said
> yoh-sem-it-ee. That is also the pronunciation given by the rangers
> in the park who are sticklers for correctness and by the Random House
> Dictionary of the American Language.
I know better than to take the stand of "It must be right - I read it
on the WWW", but this is somewhat relevant to the topic:
http://www.abovecalifornia.com/lib/Houghton/04.shtml
which might be best served by going here where it begins:
http://www.abovecalifornia.com/lib/Houghton/index.shtml
Of course, it may sound totally different again with
an Australian accent ("voytlairnda" to all you fine folk <g>)
Cheers and beers
Marc
Sydney, Oz
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