Re: [TML] Re: Potential Jotting:Addresses
Jeff Zeitlin 12 Sep 2018 22:46 UTC
On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 08:53:57 -0700, you wrote:
>And it’s pronounced SPO-CAN, not SPO-CAIN.
>It’s funny when tourists trip over all the native names used here in
>Washington.
The street in New York is "xxxxxx@n" (the @ is a schwa). Texans always
fsck it up.
The city in Texas is "HYOO-stn" (less than a schwa in the second
syllable). New Yorkers don't fsck it up as badly as Texans do the
street - but we ain't foolin' the locals.