RE: (erielack) Boxpok pronunciation

["Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>]

Ah, yes, the PRR.  A legend in their own mind . . . 

AKA, the (non)Standard Railroad of the World.

SGL 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: andrisd_@_aol.com [mailto:andrisd@aol.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:38 PM
> To: erielack_@_lists.elhts.org
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Boxpok pronunciation
> 
> Has anyone asked an SPF how the PRR pronounced it? After all 
> they are/were the Standard. ;)
>  
> Andy Cole 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hhaines_@_aol.com
> To: erielack_@_lists.elhts.org
> Sent: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 7:26 PM
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Boxpok pronunciation
> 
> 
>  
> In a message dated 3/4/2007 5:13:11 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
> dabisch1_@_concentric.net writes:
> 
> .   According to him, box-pock is the right way.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> No problems here, that's how I heard it, but then my Uncle  
> could speak three 
> languages fluently, not including English. (And most of the  
> Polish I learned 
> from him I needed to keep away from Mom or risk getting 
> swatted  with "who 
> taught you that..."--and of course he thought it was  funny).
>  
> So, we have the Erie way, box- pock, and then the rest of the 
>  world for 
> box-spoke.
> What else could be clearer?
>  
> Howard Haines 
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