| Show Missour ls name it is well to observe that no true colonel ever by any chance pronounces the last syllable of missouri with the y or i sound the only authorized zed pronunciation of the name of the state sounds the final syllable as a cross between a broad all ah and a guttural uh somewhat as though spelled Misso urah the process by which the change has been effected is that national slovenliness of utterance which manifests itself by calling one state virginne Vir ginny and another caroliner kansas city journal |
