[BC] Local pronunciations

[Kevin Tekel]

Sid Schweiger wrote:
> and our grand prize winner, the one every greenhorn gets wrong:
>
> Leominster (LEM-ins-ter).

Maybe I'm too much of a nit-pick, but I hate when radio announcers
pronounce the town of Watchung, NJ as "waht-CHUNG".  Ask any local, and
they call it "WATCH-ung".  (For example, you can ask Laura Prepon, star
of "That '70s Show" -- a Watchung native who was a high school classmate
of mine.)

And in some town in northwestern NJ, there's a street called Firth Street.
Surely I mean First Street, right?  No.  It's Firth Street.  Evidently
"firth" is a real word, but it must make the residents of this street feel
retarded when they give out their address.



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