[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: ... Illinois & names

[Doreen]

--Amanda (little innocent grin)
>
> Now you are stepping into my territory. Having lived most of my
life in Illinois, anyone from there will tell you that it is
pronounced, "ILL - IN - OY"  One easy way to spot the furiners.

Not necessarily! <VBG>  I'm an Illini too and the people in my
hometown often said they were from "Warshington, Illinoiz" which
irritated me no end. Where is the R in Washington?  There is also
another little town called Metamora (pronounced just as it looks) but
the inhabitants of which called it "Mat-a-more."

Trina, bleeding Orange and Blue and very proud of the Fightin' Illini
right now!

Great! Washington is just south & west of my hometown of Joliet. (Actually,
we formed our own city of Crest Hill, but nobody knows where that is at, but
everyone knows about Joliet, via the Blues Bros. or Stateville Prison, which
I could see on the horizon from my mom's kitchen window)

I also lived in Plainfield, DeKalb, Malta, Sycamore, and Maple Park. My son
went to college at Blackburn, which is in Carlinville.

Always nice to know there are people from the same area.
Doreen, who misses the ethnic food, but not the drive-by shootings