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#16026 01/19/01 03:36 PM

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In reply to:
mispronouncing the name of a town
I have to take issue with your use of mispronouncing. You, a stranger, may think the name of a place should be pronounced a certain way; but I submit that the way it's pronounced by the folks who live there is ipso facto the "correct" pronunciation.

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