I'm sorry, I grew up in Virginia and it's always ben "Noh'fuk' to
me...which led to some interesting jingles.
I know no locals, including my aunts and cousins who grew up there,
who pronounced it Nor-folk.
On Jan 7, 2007, at 2:11 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> We could go all day on the pronunciation of towns around Virginia:
> Suf-fick; Porchmuth; yes, Glawster; Yawktown; Hen-reck-o; Warrick;
> Stantn
> (NEVER Stawnton);
> one of my favorites is Ham-n'Sidny (sort of like ham n eggs);
> Wihyum n Murry
> for the college...said all at once, like one word. Can anyone think
> of some
> more?
>
>
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> Subject: Re: William & Mary Quarterly
>
>
>> ooh, yeah, that's another one... "NOR-folk" vs nawffuk... I am always
>> so pleased when I hear a national news figure pronounce it correctly.
>>
>> Nancy
>>
>> -------
>> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
>>
>> --Daniel Boone
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Douglas Deal wrote:
>>
>>> Deane:
>>>
>>> Thanks for recommending the online version of the William & Mary
>>> Quarterly. It's a treasure, not just for the neat old genealogical
>>> stuff
>>> but for the solid scholarship all the way through. Among
>>> historians, it
>>> has a "gold star" reputation. It is easily the best scholarly
>>> periodical
>>> in early American history, and--many would say--the best in the
>>> field of
>>> American history generally.
>>>
>>> Doug Deal
>>> (long-time resident of upstate NY, but born in NAWF-ook, the "ook"
>>> as in
>>> book)
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