[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Bob Koehler]

 In article 
 <3edb6d1f-62fb-4263-8005-fbde774ca26b at fn10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
  Rich Jordan <jordan at ccs4vms.com> wrote:
 
> Our university english lit prof told the likely apocryphal tale of her
> English professor telling his students that after long and careful
> study, he had determined that the only word in the English language
> where s followed by a vowel was pronounced as 'sh' was sumac.
> 
> One of his students asked, 'Professor, are you sure?'

   This is more interesting than it may seem.  I had to check that
   Merriam Webster claims sumac starts with the "sh" sound.  After
   living in Iowa, Louisiana, Virginia, Illinois, Michigan, NJ,
   and Maryland, I've never once heard it pronounced that way.