While wandering through the Upper Midwest.

[A Joseph Ross]

On 2/21/2012 12:42 AM, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> Pittsburghers will not forgive you for leaving the "h" out of their
> name; Pittsburg is in Kansas (and several other states).

Thank you, I'll try to remember that.  In the same spirit, I always have 
the urge to correct anyone who pronounces the "H" in Amherst, 
Massachusetts.  Sometimes I give in to that temptation, sometimes I 
restrain myself.  Last summer I saw a bumper sticker in Amherst which 
said, "Amherst, where only the H is silent."

However, there are a number of other Amhersts in other states, and all 
of them pronounce the H, as does the family of Lord Jeffrey Amherst.

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