[bookshare-discuss] Re: Chico (off-topic)
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jakeab2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:41:20 -0500
Kind of amusing to think about :-) I live about 20 minutes from there and go
to college about half an hour from there. Can't remember the last time I was
in Pekin though.
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Mackowiak" <gmackowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 10:18 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Chico (off-topic)
> Illinois has lots of strange towns. The late great senator Dirkson hailed
> from the town of Pekin, pronounced Peekin by residents. It was evidently
> thought by the founders that if you drilled through the earth in Pekin you
> would wind up in Peking pronounced Bay Jing (at least these days) China.
> Good thing they didn't try. They would have missed by quite a bit, and
> flooded the midwest with the Indian Ocean.
> (Grin)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Duane A. Iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 8:35 AM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Chico (off-topic)
>
>
> > there is also a town in Illinois which spelledlike the capitol of Egypt
> but
> > pronounced like "kay Row"
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Rick.Roderick@xxxxxx>
> > To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 4:21 PM
> > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Chico (off-topic)
> >
> >
> > > Hi Cindy,
> > >
> > > I grew up in Illinois. There is a town in Illinois called San Jose,
but
> > it
> > > is not pronounced Hozay but as it wouild have been read by an Echo
> > > synthesizer.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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