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From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: Pronouncing
Message-ID: <1997Mar3.125109.6262@sq.com>
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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 12:51:09 GMT
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> > >     There's a town called Yreka in the far northern end of California.
> > > (It's the county seat of Siskiyou County.)  ....
> 
> Interesting. I wonder if it was a misspelling of Eureka.

Note that there is also a Eureka in northern California.

> Here in Ontario we have some odd pronunciations.  One that I don't
> understand at all is an area of Toronto called Etobicoke. ...

Not *this* year it isn't!

(Reference to a current hot topic in local politics.  Someone had to say it.)

> It's pronounced "Eh-TOE-bih-COE". I can't think of too many other English
> words with a silent terminal K. 

Or in this case, a silent terminal KE.

I understand that the name Cockburn can be pronounced "Coburn".  That comes
pretty close.
-- 
Mark Brader             "...the government is simply a bunch of people
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Toronto                                                  -- Bill Stewart

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