[Magdalen] Local Pronunciation.

[Joseph Cirou]

Calumet is a prominent  southeast side name in Chicagoland--There is Lake Calumet and the Calumet River and Calumet City. Calumet River passed near St. Mary's my first priestly assignment. and went and disappeared into Lake Calumet. Later on when I had moved back in the general area but about 35 blocks East to Hegewisch I found this nice Turkish restaurant on the shores of the River. I think there may be a restaurant there, but it is no longer Turkish. I used to ride my bicycle from either St. Mary's or St Irenaeus (in Park Forest) up to Howard on the Lake Michigan, and I'd go through a very watery region with various tributaries of Lake Calumet and other lakelets and found short cuts and would start my lake Michigan ride around 95th St and take Lake Shore to Sheridan and up to Howard and come back home. Sometimes I ride with 2 eventual deacons from St Mary's (one at my parish, the other now at St. Mary's in Park Forest across the county Lane in Will County, Diocese of Joliet. the former music director at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Family in Park Forest has another job but  I still correspond with Mark Downey whom you may know.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>Sent: Feb 15, 2016 9:48 AM
>To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Local Pronunciation.
>
>On a slight tangent, I remember the days of looking for a teaching job
>in public school districts, many in small towns. It was weird to
>observe that each small town seemed to have a nutty-sounding (to me)
>surname affixed to almost everything in town. Say it's Blardo. The
>town isn't called Blardo, but lots of things within it are. There's
>Blardo Avenue, Blardo Park, the Blardo local supermarket chain, Blardo
>{insert denomination here} Church, East/West/North/South Blardo
>Schools. You meet people called Mr./Ms. Blardo. "Just go down about
>three miles to where the Blardo Feed Mill used to be, and hang a left
>at the Blardo Farm Road." Anyway, everyone there thinks Blardo is a
>perfectly normal name that everyone in America knows, but to anyone
>new to the town, it's nuts, and I begin to wonder if I really want a
>job in a town where I'll have to keep saying the name Blardo. There
>may even be children born there who were named Blardette or Blardy.
>(In Lexington, Ohio, where I started high school, there were two
>girls, at least, named Lexanne).
>
>Then there are the cities that have a sort of secondary name that
>seems to apply to the region or acts as a poetic or spiritual name for
>the place. In part of Maine, it's Kennebec; a friend who lives there
>has/had a blog called The Kennebec Report. I've seen Calumet used that
>way in Chicago (perhaps Calumet is Chicago's nutty local name--it's
>pronounced cal-you-MET).
>
>What does all this mean? I'm still pondering. More coffee.
>
>On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> NeVAYda and El DoRAYdo Springs, MO.
>>
>> MURRv'l (Maryville) and SuhVURv'l (Sevierville), TN.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Here in the mid-atlantic region we immediately know which city and state
>>> you are referring to if you speak of NEW-erk (Newark, NJ) or new-ARK
>>> (Newark, DEL).
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 11:15 PM, Charles Wohlers <
>>> charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> > 'Tis very common:
>>> >
>>> > MAD-rid, Iowa
>>> > Ne-VAY-duh, Iowa   (Nevada)
>>> >
>>> > Ber-LIN, Vermont - but
>>> > BER-lin, New Hampshire
>>> >
>>> > And, as you know, folks in Pennsylvania pronounce Lancaster with the
>>> > proper stress on the first syllable.
>>> > The home of my alma mater is BETH-lee-'m, PA
>>> >
>>> > Now down to -20F ...
>>> >
>>> > Chad Wohlers
>>> > Woodbury, VT USA
>>> > chadwohl at satucket.com
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > -----Original Message----- From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
>>> > Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 10:48 PM
>>> > To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>>> > Cc: Cantor03 at aol.com
>>> > Subject: [Magdalen] Local Pronunciation.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > A medical school classmate of mine has died in the Two Rivers,
>>> > Wisconsin area, and it reminded me of some odd regional place
>>> > names for locals in Wisconsin:
>>> >
>>> > For example, natives say something like t'RIVers for Two Rivers.
>>> >
>>> > Then there is m'WAUkee for Milwaukee.
>>> >
>>> > p'WAU-kee for pe-WAU-kee
>>> >
>>> > And lang-cast-er (without any syllabic stress) for the English
>>> > LANC-as-ter.
>>> >
>>> > RAY-seen for ra-CINE.
>>> >
>>> > FON-ge-lac for fond du LAC
>>> >
>>> > etc
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > David Strang.
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Christopher Hart
>>>
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>>> Twitter: @cervus51
>>>
>
>
>
>-- 
>Scott R. Knitter
>Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA