Dave Lovely wrote:
>
>
> There is a street, or avenue, in Chicago named after Goethe - the
> favoured pronunciation of certain Chicago bus drivers of my
> acquaintance, when approaching the bus-stop there, would be to rhyme it with 'oath'.
>
> Dave Lovely
Things have disintegrated since my childhood in Chicago, when the bus I
took to piano lessons used to pass that street all the time and the
driver would yell out two syllables, second w/ apical th and long e.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|