The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-27
HOW DO YOU SAY THEM.s
Names of Cities Pronounced Different
 Iy ut Latitude and Longitude.

Names of Cities Pronounced Dinerent-
 Iy at Latitude and Longitude.
 Boston Transcript
 Professor Hart. in his interesting ar ticle on Oklahoma in last Saturdays Transcript, admonished his New Eng land readers that it Is pronounced oak, not Oklahoma Professor Hart did well, as an editorial paragraph of the same issue thereby noted. The same paragraph commented on other pronun- citations of places. used by their resi- dents, that are quite different from our usage. Now this is a New York Sun field and the clerk enters upon 1t with some trepidation. but here goes: The Transcripts editorial notes Iowa, Virginia and Oregon among the other names not pronounced here as at home Then there i sOhio. which the native jerks out "Uhiuh,' disregarding our solemn .'Oh- hi-ho." We and the ga zetteers say New Or-le ans, accent on the "Or." Down there they stress the last syllable. and cal it "leens." Oma- ha Is "Omahaw." not "Omahah. Los Vegas is Los Veaygos." Missouri IS "Mizzoura." You are more likely to hear "Coloraydo," than "Colorahdo" in that State Spokane is as if there was no ..e" in it. Manitoba is accented on the penult not the ultimate Quincy, Ou.,) is not "Quinzy." Galveston stresses the yes rather than the Gal. s.Terra Hut" the natives call 1t. More say 'Loosiana," than Loueziaha' "Tucson" is "Tooson," accent on the ultimate, and so on. You have perhaps heard of the Frenchman who came 10 America to see the city of Winona' Minn., attracted by its beautiful name. which he pronounced "Weenonah' Landing at New York, he scarcely gave any attention to the metropolis put pushed on to the West. Chicago was seen only in changing cars, and as the train -lided along the Mississippi and approached what Is beautlIul city' surrounded by rich verdure and roman tic bluffs of the upper Mississippi, the Frenchman was enchanted. Ihe tram slowed up before stopping at the sta ton, the Frenchman half rose rom ms seat in feverish anticipation. when the brakeman opened the door and yell oa "Weinony!" The Frenchman col Iansed in his seat heartbroken, and did not leave the train at Winona.
 What queer accommodations" ex- claim my New England readers. h. deed? Here I let my neighbor, an Iowa man, take his pen in hand and put In type the glowing words he has often emitted in my presence. This IS what he says
 "Yes. I am from Iowa. and I never heard any other than the pronunciation T-o-wa' (acceMt on the first syllable) until I came East. Oh, yes; occasion ally the older and more rural people would call it. I-o-way, which is really the original. Indian pronunciation. But this I-oh-a was unknown to Lowndes Nor anybody else in the Hawkeye State. Yet no one here calls it anything else
 When I go to register and I am asked where I was born. the solemn clerk nuts it down Ireland and asks If have my naturalization papers NOW how do you folks get such pronuncia- ton? It isn't found in any cyclope- | dia or gazetteer that I ever saw IL is incorrect and to me sounds suited. Nor do your own accommodations con- vince me. Why on earth do you say Ouinzv" when that syllable peslhs with a e. never pronuonced other than 's' or k? Why do you say Waitham and 'Wrentham' and slam out una. 'tham' so roundly? Used to those pro nunciations and the dwelling on the last syllable in Newburyport. etc'' | once innocently pronounced the name Of that Cane Cod town as II IS speieu. 1 'Rarnstable' thinking staple as soott a word as barn and as well worth dwelling on and the ofhce roared at
 me Why say 'Wooburn' when you smell if woburn? But worst of all is | that pretty little Middlesex town whose nanoe rather liked until I heard it
 over and over again blared out Bill | Kicker
 I am afraid my Iowan's case is q
 dcsnerate one. But confess some sym
 pathv for him, don't you?