>> On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 11:23:45 -0400, Chris Adams wrote
(in article ):

> Once upon a time, Amy Guskin   said:
>>>> On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 22:32:52 -0400, Chris Adams wrote
>> (in article ):
>>> At least Florida and Australia are on opposite sides of the world.
>>> Beaufort is pronounced differently in South Carolina and North Carolina,
>>> and those two towns are only a little over 300 miles from each
other! <<
>> 
>> Which one's BOW-fort and which one's BYU-fort?
> 
> SC is bew and NC is bo.
> 
> My mother is from SC (although she's from the midlands, not the low
> country where Beaufort is located), so I pronounced it
"bewfert".  I was
> quickly corrected when I went to a high school summer program in
> "bofart" NC. <<

It's funny, and I'm not sure why, but I would have guessed the reverse.  I 
think I associate the name "beau" (bo) as a very southern thing (and SC is 
farther south than NC).  Or that maybe they felt 'fancier' there and would 
have hung onto the more continental pronunciation.

But technically they're both southern states, so I guess it could have gone 
either way.

Amy
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