Houston [was: The Cost of California Liberalism]

[Trei, Peter]

> Ken Brown[SMTP:k.brown at ccs.bbk.ac.uk] wrote:
> 
> When I worked in the Oil business some of my less sensitive English
> colleagues sometimes tried to parody Texan accents. They always got it
> very wrong - for example saying "Hooston" most Americans  would instead
> of "Hyooston" as both we English and the Texans do (of course the name
> is originally Scottish (a place near Glasgow) and in it's homeland is
> "Hooston".) 
> 
And in the Big Apple we can tell out-of-towners in a New York second by
asking
them the name of the street at the southern base of the numbered grid
system. It's 
Houston Street, and every citizen knows it's 'house-ton'.

"It doesn't matter where you are; if it's not New York, you're Out Of Town."

Peter Trei