Re: SPURIA Pronunciation & Others

Hi Walter! 
        You write (as you continue in hot pursuit of the chatterbox award
in spite of yourself (<:):
> > 
> 	Couldn't resist this!  When the Waco thing first hit the news,
> broadcast journalists (?) were saying "Wacko."
> 
> 	The Yocona River is dammed up to form Enid Lake, where I live, and
> I live on the Yocona Ridge Road; however, it is not pronounced like one
> would think.  It is Yock-knee, so the locals say!  Walter in MS 

Native American words and their derivatives don't count! For instance, does
anyone outside Oregon really know how to pronounce YAQUINA BLUE
(particularly the first word). I have heard about as many variations on
this one as have been proposed for SPURIA.

Jeff Walters in northern Utah  (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@cache.net
"This is the Place" - home of Tooele, Oquirrh, Timpanogos and Uinta
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