I’m watching television news tonight, which I almost never do. Maybe this is long-established. But: when did this affectation begin of talking about ‘Missourah’? I know it’s how some natives say the word. But it would sound silly for commentators with whitebread middle-America accents to name my hometown as “Pahtsmath, New Hampshah,” just like it sounds silly for such commentators to arbitrarily pick a few Spanish placenames and roll the Ns and Rs, while they still say ‘Paris’ rather than ‘Paree’ and ‘Warsaw’ rather than ‘Varsava’. Whence ‘Missourah’?
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