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Show Niagara Is a Huron Word. "Everybody pronounces Niagara wrong," said a philologist "Tho accent ac-cent of this beautiful Indian word should not bo put on tho syllable 'ag,' but on tho syllnblo 'ar' tho penult tho ono boforo tho last. "Niagara means 'hark to the thunder.' thun-der.' Its accent should fall on the penult becauso tho Indians them-solvos them-solvos accent It thero, becauso In practically prac-tically all our Indian names of places tho penult ls tho ncconted syllable. "Think of tho Indian names you know. Don't you accent nearly all of thom on the syllable before tho last? Thero aro, for Instance, Toronto, Mississippi, Mis-sissippi, Alleghany, Appalachicola, Nanagansott, Tuscaloosa, Saratoga, Tlconderoga, Oswego, Conshohockon, Wissahlckon nnd Hochclaga. In all thoso names tho accent 1b on tho ponult. "Niagara Is n Huron word, and, if you find n Huron, you will find that ho accents It ns ho docs Saratoga or Tuscaloosa. I 'don't know how wo havo fallen Into tho habit of accenting It wrong." |
