In a message dated 5/10/07 3:24:59 PM Central Daylight Time, Pat wrote in a note to a posting by Fred Goldstein :
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Speaking about odd pronounciations of
> words, consider the town of Miami, Oklahoma. Residents there do not
> pronounce it My-Am-eee, but rather My-Am-ah.
What's your definition of "odd"? There are 15 or 20 cities in the United States named "Miami," and the pronounciation is divided about half and half between those two variants.
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