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

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In article <1Pz8et8m7O9A at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> 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.

You should have lived in Pennsylvania! ;)


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