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In article <3E44A623.89B17E81@sig.please.because.this.is.invalid>,
 Michael Dix <look@sig.please.because.this.is.invalid> wrote:

> Paul Russell wrote:
> > 
> > One also hears some pretty bizarre pronunciations even here in chic,
> > cosmopolitan CA, e.g.
> > 
> > car-mel
> 
> Of course: Carmel, California.
> 
> If you mean car-a-mel, plenty of people say it that way here, too.
> 

kar-m&l (you'll have to imagine the umlaut over the a, and the '&' is a 
schwa) is an accepted pronunciation in M-W for both the food and the 
town in Indiana.

 
> > 'erb
> 
> There's no "h" in French, silly. But we should pronounce it 
> airb, it's true. My only consolation is that you lot used to pronounce
> it urb, too, according to Chambers.

&rb, acc. to Webster's. I'm told that the h&rb pronunciation is a 
decidedly middle-class British thing, by those who have been taught to 
have a fear of dropping 'h's inappropriately.


> > l-eye-ma bean
> 
> Named after L-eye-ma, Ohio.

Lima, Peru, as the bean is of S. American origin, although the 
pronunciation does seem to track with Lima, Ohio.


> > end-eye-v
> 
> Also OK per Chambers, although of course we should pronounce it
> on-deev.

Both acceptable per Webster's, although "end-eye-v" is listed first.


ObBAFood: Dinner at Bandera. Not worth the 75 minute wait. I knew there 
was a reason we stopped going, apart from their dropping creme brulee 
from the menu.

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