Woe-Burn

SteveOrdinetz steveord@bit-net.com
Sun Jan 11 16:09:07 EST 2004


  Laurence Glavin wrote:
>One of my pet peeves occurs during the fall-foliage season.
>Some announcer, perhaps even a native Noo Englanduh
>will say "traffic is backed up at the Kang-ka-MANG-us highway"...
>it supposed to be "Kan-ca-MAW-gus".

I've lived in N.H. for 32 years, and I've never heard the second 
pronunciation.  If no one, even the natives uses it, is it correct?



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