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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kfp86d$dcm$1 at dont-email.me>,
	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> In article <kfohgf$e23$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> 	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>> 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".
>> 
>> Cause Pennsylvanians were stupid?  
>> 
>> bill
>> 
> 
> I believe the german word for german is something like deutch.  Probably 
> misspelled.  So when they were asked where they were from, they replied 
> deutch, and so the Pennsylvanians called them dutch.

Like I said, stupid.  Even the Dutch don't call themselves Dutch.
Kinda like Americans who have Scotch friends.  My only Scotch
friends come in bottles.

> 
> As for the mental capability of the average Pennsylvanian, I'm not going 
> there ....

Come on up to my part of PA.  Definitely the shallow end of the gene pool.

> 
> Probably more than you wanted to know ...

bill

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Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
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