Re: [OM] [OT] Pronouncing Native American names Was Re:Camera -- to abuse or not ?

[Garth Wood]

At 09:19 PM 6/4/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Does this give us know-nothing Limeys a clue as to how to pronounce the name
>of the tribe?


After the French fashion, more-or-less thusly:


   "EER-o-kwah" or "EER-e-kwah" (*slight* emphasis on the first syllable)


As for why "Huey," a pronounciation perversion of the designation "UH," I 
believe.



Garth


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