Date:         Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:57:29 -0500
Reply-To:     "Gerstle, John" <yzg9@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Gerstle, John" <yzg9@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Louisville
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"Looa vool", 2 syllables. That's how my family has always pronounced it.
To get it right, you need that Kentucky drawl, which is faster than say
the Alabama drawl. Just like New Orleans, residents know the
out-of-towners, who like to pronounce too many syllables.

Nice town. Seems to have grown much in the past decade or two. Derby Day
(the Kentucky Derby) is a city holiday. And college basketball is huge.
:) Plus, downtown, under the giant baseball bat is the Louisville
Sluggers factory/museum (don't remember, but I still have my mini-bat
when I was a kid. :)) And, to cap it off, Indiana has gambling boats up
the river! :)

John Gerstle, MS
Biostatistician
Northrop Grumman
CDC Information Technological Support Contract (CITS)
NCHSTP \DHAP \HICSB \Research, Analysis, and Evaluation Section
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

                  Albert Einstein, addressing the Prussian Acadamy of
Science, Berlin , Jan 27, 1921

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-sas-l@listserv.uga.edu
[mailto:owner-sas-l@listserv.uga.edu]
>> On Behalf Of Jack Hamilton
>> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 4:13 PM
>> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Louisville (was SAS Institute's leader's conversion to the
dark
>> side)
>>
>> David L Cassell <davidlcassell@MSN.COM> wrote:
>>
>> > When I was a kid, we used to ask "How do you pronounce the capital
of
>> > Kentucky?  Louis-ville or louee-ville?"
>>
>> I have relatives in Frankfort.  It's a pretty down, but sleepy.  A
bit
>> reminiscent of Sacramento, and even of Jackson, Mississississippi.
>> Oops, I got carried way there.
>>
>> But even if Louisville were the capital, the name would have two
schwas
>> - forming real vowels is way too much work.
>>
>> I understand that it's pretty much an outpost of the north now, so I
>> don't know the current local pronunciation.