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Subject:	Re: Jordan's Journey
From:	Ann Avery Hunter <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Sun, 7 Jan 2007 00:42:01 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Terrell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Jordan's Journey


> That's interesting.  Growing up in Hen-rec-oh for many years (and having
> family from New
> Kent), I
> always pronounced it Hen-rI-co.  I always associated the older
> pronunciation with Southside
> Virginia.

You must be very young  :-)  Everybody I knew said "Hen-rec-o", and we were
all from north of the river. Not the NORTH, heaven forbid, just north of the
James in the Richmond and eastern Henrico area for many generations.


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Ann Avery Hunter
Winston-Salem, NC
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