Once upon a time, Amy Guskin   said:   
   >>> On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 22:32:52 -0400, Chris Adams wrote   
   >(in article <_MSdnSb2du9JkkvRnZ2dnUVZ_t2dnZ2d@posted.hiwaay2>):   
   >> At least Florida and Australia are on opposite sides of the world.   
   >> Beaufort is pronounced differently in South Carolina and North Carolina,   
   >> and those two towns are only a little over 300 miles from each other! <<   
   >   
   >Which one's BOW-fort and which one's BYU-fort?   
      
   SC is bew and NC is bo.   
      
   My mother is from SC (although she's from the midlands, not the low   
   country where Beaufort is located), so I pronounced it "bewfert".  I was   
   quickly corrected when I went to a high school summer program in   
   "bofart" NC.   
      
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