The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-11-01
HOW 20 YOU SAY THEM7 /.
A. 4
Frnm the Boston Transcript,

Professor Hart, In his interesting ar
ticle on Oklahoma in the Transcript,
admoniShed his New England readerS
hat it is pronounced Oak, not OG-la-
homa. Professor Hart did we'll. as an
editorial paragraph of the same issue
thereby noted. The same paragraph
commented on other recommendations or
places, used by their residents, that
are quite different from our usage.
Now this is IL New York Sun field and
the clerk enters upon it with some
trepidation, but here goes: The
Transcripts editorial notes Iowa, vir-
ginia and Oregon among the other
names not pronounced here as at home.
Then there is Ohio, which the native
jerks out "Uhiuh," di~sregarding u
solemn "Oh-hi-oh.'' We and the ga
zetteers say New Orleans accent IN
last syllable and call it .leens.p Omaha
is "Omahaw," not "Omahah." LOS
Vegas is Los Vagas." Missouri is
"Mizzoura.'' You are more likely to
hear 'Coloraydo" than "ColorahGo' in
tina state. Spokane is as If there was
the penult, not the ultimate. Quincy,
H., is not "Quinzy." Galveston stresses
the YES rather than the Gal" Terra
Hut" the natives call it. More say
'Loosiana" tina "Loueziana." Tucson
is .Tooson," accent on the ultimate,
Siiu 81 Oil.A 1OQ IaNG perhaps UGdTo
of the Frenchman who came to Amer
lea to see the city of Winona, Mimi,
attracted by its beautiful name, which
he pronounced "Weenonah." Landing
at New York, he scarcely gave any at
tention to the metropolis, but pushed
on to the west. Chicago was seen only
in changing cars, and as the train
glided along the Mississippi and ap-
preached what is a beautiful city, sur
rounded by the rich yerdure and ro-
mantle bluffs of the upper Mississippi,
the Frenchnlan was enchanted. The
train slowed up before stopping at the
station, the Frenchman half rose from
his seat in feverish anticipation, when
the brakeman opened the door and
yelled "Weinony!" The Frenchman
collapsed in his seat heartbroken, and
did not leave the train at Winona.
what queer pronunciations!" ex-
claim my New England readers. In
deed? Here l 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 / never
heard any other han the pronunciation
Iowa (accent on the first syllable)
until / came east. Oh, yes; occasionally
the older and more rural people would
call it I-o-way,' which is really the
original Indian pronunciation. But this
l-oh-a was to Wnde or
anybody else in the Hawkeye state.
Yet 10 n here calls it anything else.
When I go to register and I am asked
where | was born, the solemn clerk
puts it down Ireland and asks if I have
my naturalization papers. Now. how
do O folks get such a pronunciation?
1t isn't found in any c%yclopedia or ga
zetteer that l ever saw. 1t is incorrect
and to me sounds stilted. Nor do your
own recommendations convince me. Why
on earth do O say Quincy when
that syllable begins with a C. never
pronounced other than IS or KIP Why
do you say Waltham' and Wren
thanh and slam out that than so
roundly? Used to those recommendations
and the dwelling on the last syllable in
Newburyport, ETC., l once innocently
pronounced the name of that Cape Cod
town as it is spelled, 'Barnstable,'
thinking stable as good a word as
barn, and as well worth dwelling on,
and the office roared at me. Why say
'Wooburn' when you spell it Woburn?
But worst. of all is that pretty little
Middlesex town whose name I rather
liked until ! heard it over and over
again blared u Bill Kicker"
/ am afraid my IoWan's case is a
desperate one. But l confess some
sympathy for him, don't you?