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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rutgers!ub!galileo.cc.rochester.edu!ee.rochester.edu!jerry
  2. From: jerry@ee.rochester.edu (Jerry Seward)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.culture.ny-upstate
  4. Subject: Re: OK, how do you say...
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan4.050244.24592@ee.rochester.edu>
  6. Date: 4 Jan 93 05:02:44 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec28.194810.29158@pool.info.sunyit.edu> <1993Jan4.021732.26200@nmsu.edu>
  8. Organization: Univ of Rochester, College of Engineering and Applied Science
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  11. In article <1993Jan4.021732.26200@nmsu.edu> dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman) 
  12. writes:
  13.  
  14. >Let's take "Cheektowaga" for example.  White collar folks around Buffalo  
  15. >pronounce the home of the Walden Galleria Cheek-toe-waa-guh while blue collar  
  16. >types say Chick-tuh-wah-guh.  I've even heard it pronounced Chick-a-tuh-va-guh  
  17. >by some.  Cheektowaga is Iroquois for "crabapple tree", although I heard it  
  18. >actually meant "bowling alley" :)
  19.  
  20. I thought that Cheektowaga was Iroquois for "near the airport."
  21.