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On 27/06/2010 21:06, Ian Jelf wrote:
Edin - burrow (Edinburgh, as almost *always* pronounced by North
Americans)

Are any of them from Pitsburrow?

The Americans are no better, with Kansas and Arkansas. I wonder what the
reaction would be if a Brit were refer to Ar-Can-Zus while in the USA.

If they were talking about the river that flows through Colorado or
Kansas, they'd be right, though the pronounciation changes when you get
downstream, apparently.


Not up in Leadville it doesn't (headwaters of the Arkansas river).

That's interesting - I have friends from Tennessee who moved to Arkansas
and said that where they were the river was pronounced as it is written,
not like the state. There's clearly some variation.

Sam