Re: [ATM] ATM pronuciation

[Dale Eason <atmpob@yahoo.com>]

Houghton Michigan is pronounced Ho ton.

Dale Eason
--- ATM_jcbj <atm_jcbj@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> 'Hough-', I imagine, should be said "Haw", as in
> 'Broughton', or maybe
> "How" ('How ya do'n?') or maybe even "Ho", like the
> garden tool (or
> whatever else you were thinking).
>  
> I doubt there's any argument over the last syllable,
> '-ton', other than
> regional-dialect related inflections: 
> 
> A sampling of examples from my neck of the woods:
> 
> "Haughton":
> 
> "Hah-tayen" 
> <edjumacated Southerner, said between sips of (Very
> sweet) tea>, 
> 
> "Haw'un"
> <un-edjumacated Southerner, said with piece of straw
> in mouth>,
> <or "Huge-ton" by an even less enlightened person,
> one who has trouble
> not choking the straw occasionally>
> 
> "Ha-tarn"
> <Appalachian Southerner, a.k.a. 'Mountain Folk'>,
> 
> Or sometimes, when in town, you might get:
> "Hair'tern" 
> <which would be from one of them newfangled,
> know-it-all,
> relocated/retired 'damned Yankee' "new
> Southerners"...><originally from
> Boston> 
> 
> Now, not to complain, but we've got enough of you
> fellers from up North
> down here now.  Y'all need to quit griping 'bout how
> things were so much
> better up North...  If things were so good back
> home, why'd you leave?
> Did the rest of 'em kick you out because you were so
> cantankerous and
> ornery?  Were you banned and can't go back?
> 
> ;-)
> 
> 'Jim-Bob' <James>
> Raleigh, NC, 
> Southern US
> (a local native, but university educated - 'pie are
> square' and not
> round, and all that other nonsense)
> 
> (personally, I'd guess "Hoe ten".  If it was
> "hAugh-", I'd say
> "Haw-ton", but it's hOugh-...  I'd go with 'Hoe' -
> not 'haw' or 'how'.
> And the emphasis seems to be on the first syllable,
> so I'd go with a
> subtle '-ten', not the stronger '-ton'.)
> 
> (anyone else notice that 'pronunciation' is spelled
> wrong in the title?
> :-)
> 
> enjoy.
> 
> 
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