[PRCo] Re: PAT's cuts

Derrick Brashear shadow at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 10:51:18 EST 2010


On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm chuckling John.   Those two years that I taught school in New Holland I learned that a long distance trip for most families was the Delaware Park Race Track.   The Pennsylvania history teacher consistently mispronounced Monongahela, Allegheny, Youghiogheny, Versailles and other places west of the mountains because he had never been west of Harrisburg.  (He was also a railfan.)

My 3rd grade teacher was from Pitcairn. She persistently misprounced
Schuylkill. I knew better.

Unlike my other 3rd grade teacher, I didn't get crap for opening my
mouth when I was right (tho I did for speaking out of turn)




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