On 2010-11-09 07:49:34 -0600, Dan Dassow said:   
   > On Nov 7, 11:49 pm, "James A. Robbins"  wrote:   
   >> "Chris Adams"  wrote in message   
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   >> news:_MSdnSb2du9JkkvRnZ2dnUVZ_t2dnZ2d@posted.hiwaay2...   
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   >>> 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!   
   >>    
   >> In southern Ohio we have a town named Rio Grande (pronounced   
   >> Rye-Oh Grand).  Being from Los Angeles it drove me crazy.   
   >    
   > Diehard native born Missourians and Missouri politicians pronounce   
   > Missouri as Mizzourah. I have never understood this pronunciation   
   > since moving to the St. Louis area almost 30 years ago. In response, I   
   > jokingly call it the Great State of Misery.   
   It depends on the Missourian. My father pronounced it that way (he was    
   from Kansas City) but many don't. There's no rhyme or reason for it,    
   either. Ann Landers once tried to claim that there was a line across    
   the state and people on one side said Mizzurrah and the other side said    
   Mizzurree. Not so. It's mixed.   
   There's a song from a Tulsa-based novelty country musician from the    
   early 1980s calling himself Floyd Pink called, "She in Missouri, I'm in    
   misery", BTW.   
   -K   
   --- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32   
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