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

[David Froble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <00ACEFA0.609F6A62 at sendspamhere.org>,
> 	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>> 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?
> 
> Can't imagine why.  It isn't pronounced with the "sh" sound in German
> either.  Only difference between German and English is the pronounciation
> of the "a".
> 
> And for those who think "He said Dutch, not German" :-) the word in 
> Dutch is "sumak".  Still no "sh".
> 
> bill
>  
> 

Ah, but you omitted the interesting reason why they are called 
"Pennsylvania Dutch".