Re: SPURIA Pronunciation & Others

Jeff and Carolyn Walters wrote:
> 
> 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

When at the Portland Convention, our bus was given a pronunciation
lesson. This river's name is the Willamette-- _amn it!

Diana W-i-n-S-H-I-P as in puppy!
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