Speaking 'properly'

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Karen Barker"
<karenabarker at y...> wrote:
My favourite one in Herts is Chesham Bois, which 
> I thought was pronounced as in French for wood, but it's actually 
> Chesham Boys!!!  That's what comes of having a language which has been 
> cobbled together from English, Saxon, Norse, Greek, Latin, Norman 
> French and who knows what else, I suppose!  
> 
> Karen

Ah, well now I don't feel too bad.  We have a town in Pennsylvania
called North Versailles, pronounced North Ver-sails.  And, it's all by
itself - there's no other Versailles of any direction nearby; it's a
monopole.

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