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Actually, it's neither: it's Mizz-ER-(pick your own vowel). Hey--if I can get around Miss being Miz for the state, why can't I get around Aus being Auz, for Australia? I simply cannot bring myself to think of it that way. To me it is Aussssstralia, and that's that.
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>why can't I get around Aus being Auz, for Australia? I simply cannot bring myself to think of it that way. To me it is Aussssstralia, and that's that.
Don't worry, I think I couldcount on one hand the number of USns who say it properly. Of course, since your own hometown has just been the beneficiary of Helen's rule, you're going have to reorientate your views on the whole Oz/Ausss thing, else Hev and and Co. might get snakey.
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Thing is, the doctor and his wife were both Louisvillians, so far as I know.
They just didn't pronounce it like anyone I know.
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Oh yes--don't forget to swallow the uh.
I didn't forget... and had to be rushed to the emergency room.
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"... and had to be rushed to the emergency room."
The third syllable of that name is likely to be more "vl" than "vl". This is what I conclude from living in Naishvl, not far removed from Cookvl, Clarkvl, and Knoxvl.
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more "vl" than "vl"...A subtle difference, indeed, old friend. 
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"A subtle difference, indeed, old friend."
Well, you know how SUBTLE I always am. Of course I meant to write "more vl than vul".
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Speaking of switching: birdfeed, I noticed you said you were subtle with bustle. My cousin Ben went to college in Cookevl and married a girl from Knoxvl. He grew up on a farm outside Goodlsvl.
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Oh, please! Y'all have it easy.
Here's a few we New Hampshirites deal with daily:
Worcester = WUSS-Tah
Tewksbury = TOOKS-bry
Chelmsford = CHEMs-fd
Exeter = X-a-dah
Billerica = Bill-rika
and the real fun one :
Portsmouth = Ports-muth (or for real Yankees, Porch-mith)
always good for an extended conversation with order-takers.
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