On 2010-11-07 21:08:07 -0600, Dave Hayslett said:   
   > Chris Adams wrote:   
   >    
   >> 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.   
   >>    
   >    
   > It gets worse.  This is an admittedly local thing, but there's a   
   > neighborhood ("community" in SC-speak) whose name is spelled "DeBordieu",   
   > but is pronounced "debbie-do".   
   >    
   > No, I'm not kidding.   
   My personal opinion is that the "English" spoken by South Carolinians    
   bears only a cursory resemblance to that spoken by, say, the rest of    
   the US or the UK.   
   And received pronunciation in the UK pronounces "Beaufort" as    
   "boe-furt", more or less.   
   -K   
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