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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:40:00 EST
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- From: Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: New Orleans
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- > >I think I remember from my years of living in N.O. that they pronounce
- > >it "Mahnt-Lee-Ahn"....
- >
- > correct. But the funny pronunciations are the way we tell natives
- > from mere immigrants. It's also the result of the early cultural
- > conflict between the 'Americans' and the Creoles.
- >
- > JAG
-
- Which reminds me, John -- Brad and Marty and I were wondering whether
- you're 'GOO-bert' or 'Goo-BAIR'. We would have asked you if you'd
- joined us in Louisville the day after Thanksgiving.
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