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

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In article <ao8874Fd1uoU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>In article <00ACEF2F.64E50CF6 at sendspamhere.org>,
>	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>> 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! ;)
>
>I live in PA and I have lived in over a dozen differnt states and
>a bunch of counturies and I have never heard it pronounced with the
>"sh" sound either.

In heavy PA Dutch areas?

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