...but still, I guess it's better than "pow-HAT-an." I grit my teeth
when I hear that one.

PO-white Creek and parkway has led to many a joke about where our
families are going to end up.

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On Jan 7, 2007, at 6:34 AM, Sunshine49 wrote:

> He may be a linguist, but those of us born and raised right in the
> territory of Chief Powhatan [and in many cases descended from the
> Powhatan Indians, as my husband and I are] pronounce it POW-a-tan.
> Might this be something like telling someone the 'right' way to
> pronounce their last name?
>
> Nancy
>
> -------
> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
>
> --Daniel Boone
>
>
>
> On Jan 7, 2007, at 4:58 AM, John Frederick Fausz wrote:
>
>> For a couple of years, I worked closely with Philip Barbour,
>> editor of
>> The Complete Works of Captain John Smith and The Jamestown
>> Voyages, and author of Smith and Pochontas biographies.  He was
>> quite a linguist and a dogged researcher, and he always insisted that
>> "Powhatan" should be pronounced
>>
>>                                 PO hat an
>>
>> (long O and emphasis on 1st syllable, ignoring the W).
>>
>> With that drilled into my head, I have always thought that Powhite
>> should be pronounced  PO WHITE--with implications left to others!
>>
>> Fred Fausz
>> St. Louis
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