Geographical literacy

[pengolodh_sc at yahoo.no]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., pbnesbit at msn.com wrote:

> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., bbennett at j... wrote:
> Too true, B :waves at fellow Kentuckian:  Even now, I still have to 
> stop myself when I'm talking about those particular cities and 
> pronounce them the way they would there--I want to pronounce them 
> the way they *should* be pronounced <g>

Garrard comes to mind.  Regarding the Quebec-issue, Norwegians are 
taught Kwie-beck, but in US highschool, I was taught to pronounce it 
Keh-bec.  From Kentucky, I also remmeber that 'l's sometimes had an 
unfortunate tendency to disappear (leading me to wonder what a gopher 
was when they were talking about golfers on the carride from 
Bluegrass Airport - to which I had gotten from Norway via Newark and 
Detroit).

> I live in Charleston, SC & the accent here (at least among the 
> natives) is to say the least, interesting.  
> Charleston is Chahston
> Cooper is Kupper (it's the river that, along with the Ashley, flows 
> together to form the Atlantic Ocean, according to Charlestonians)
> 
> Geography question:  What's the capitol of Kentucky? 

Frankfort, obviously.  What is this thing that all former colonies of 
the United Kingdom have for capitals?  They never seem ready to 
accept using an exisiting city for their capital - instead they 
construct an all new city; preferably in the middle of nowhere, and 
it ends up being populated exclusively by politicians, lobbyists, 
journalists, generals and other bums.  Not to forget an unusually 
snotty police-service!

> Peace & Plenty,
> 
> Parker
> 
> PS: B, where are you from?  I'm from Murray.

Best regards
Christian Stubø
(who's never had funnel-cake, and who's just watched "James Bond:  
With a View to a Kill" - that female heroine was just a bit to much 
of a damsel in distress at times (not to mention that she overdrew 
her account of tiems she's allowed to say "Oh, James!"))