AMEN! I grew up on the other side of Forest Hill Park, on West 33rd
Street. My husband grew up on New Kent Ave. When was this "JERR dens'
Market"? The earliest one in that area that my husband remembers is a
"Chesterfield Market."

I fear that future generations will never know that natives pronounce/
d it "hen WRECK uh" not "hen RIKE o."

Maybe we should start a club? Or file a paper with the Valentine
Museum, for future historians to make note of?

I think it's kind of amusing, I can always tell if a person is from
the general eastern VA.- Md. area, if they say "th' Chesapeake Bay."
It's always "the." Non- locals call it "Chesapeake Bay."

Nancy

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

--Daniel Boone



On Jan 6, 2007, at 11:09 PM, Ann Avery Hunter wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Connie Lapallo" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 8:07 PM
> Subject: [VA-HIST] Jordan's Journey
>
>
>> Samuel would have pronounced his name "JERR-den." His ancestors
>> probably
>> came to England from France after the Hundred Years war. This
>> distinct
>> pronounciation survived in Virginia for many years, and is
>> distinguishable
>> from the ancient family of English Jordans who pronounce it more
>> as we
>> would expect: "JOR-den".
>
> When I was growing up in Richmond, there were no JOR-dens. My mother's
> grandmother was a JER-den, and the grocery store at the corner of
> Forest
> Hill and Westover Hills Blvd. was JER-den's. JER-den has fallen by
> the wayside, a victim of radio and TV, just like the real
> pronunciation of
> Henrico, which is Hen-REC-oh, not Hen-RIKE-oh.
>
> ---
> Ann Avery Hunter
> Winston-Salem, NC
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