At 9:34 AM -0400 10/14/03, Sid Schweiger wrote: >If we're going to go strictly on how the locals pronounce it, then >nearly everyone mispronounces the name of the state whose capital is >Baton Rouge (Ba-taw Rooj). It's Lou-see-an-a, not Lou-ee-see-an-a. >Its largest city is Noo-Aw-lins, not New Or-leans. Yea, but the only ones who still say Miss-our-ah are the politicians. -- Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH