Re: SPEC: Dietes

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• Subject: Re: [iris-talk] SPEC: Dietes
• From: G* S*
• Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:58:32 -0800
• References: <3A676E08.57248FA@sympatico.ca>

"Ian E. Efford" wrote:
> 
> ....
> 
> Ian, in Ottawa where there is about 4ft of snow at the moment and he is
> wondering why Americans pronounce Missouri as if it ended in ......ra?

So that it will rhyme with Ohio?


Gerry, who grew up in Ohio, pronouncing "Missouri" as in, 
except for emphasis, "Missouri loves company."
-- 
g*@mediaone.net
Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair, Region 15 RVP
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles
my work: helping generate data for: http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/

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