Jim, You are so right, it is pronounced Joe-ack-em. In Jefferson Co., they do pronounce Boyer as Boy-yer and Womack is pronounced Wom-ack in St. Francois Co., but in Jefferson Co., they pronounce it Wo-mack (long O sound). St. Francois Co., is pronounced St. Francis. How about Sansoucie, the pronounciation of it has changed over the years also. When I grew up they pronounced it San-sue-cie and now it is saunch-cha-cie. Ruth ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Turner Harris" <chinahilltop@charter.net> To: <mostfran@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:14 PM Subject: [MOSTFRAN] Pronunciation of names and places >I have been told that "St. Joachim" is pronounced "Joe - ach - em." I hope >that is sort of phonetically the way to say it. I would be interested if >anybody has another way to pronounce it. I will say that in and around >Potosi, Mo. "Boyer" is commonly called "Boo-yer" and that is how I was >brought up saying it. > > I think you idea is a great one. I for one never new how to pronounce > "DeLassus" and I am or was a "molasses" man sayer of it. I know that is > bad grammar but what the heck. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Melanie Rickmar > To: mostfran@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:03 PM > Subject: Re: [MOSTFRAN] MOSTFRAN Digest, Vol 3, Issue 286 > > > I think we need a list on the St. Francois County web site of > pronunciations > for surnames and place names. > > I've never been sure how to pronounce Joachim as in St. Joachim Catholic > Church. > > And I spent years pronoucing DeLassus as Delasses as in Molasses, lol. > And > I've lived in St. Francois County since I was 12 years old. I had just > never heard the name said - just saw it spelled on road signs. Finally > I > learned to pronounce it: Della Sue. > > And I have had people ask me in emails how St. Francois is pronounced -- > Francis or Fran 'swah". (It is Francis). > > Does anyone have any requests? > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOSTFRAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message