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Re: reading the package

Posted By: Howard, on host 216.80.144.192
Date: Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 13:13:22
In Reply To: Re: reading the package posted by 10Kan on Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 12:56:25:

> > Speaking of New Orleans, I know four different ways to pronouce that city's name.
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> > Howard
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> So what are the four different ways? Could you write them phonetically? I can think of the way most Southerners prounounce the city's name (New Ore Leens) and the French accent (New Ohr Lea Ohns.) What are the other two?
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> 10Kan

You got two of them. Sometimes it's Naw Lins, and there is another way that defies all effort to spell it out. Maybe it's N' Or Le Uns, with the accent on "Or." No, you have to hear it.
Howard

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