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To: hoosiermama

Yes, older Texans pronounce it Gal VEZ ton. because the person who founded the settlement was named Galvez, with the accent on the last syllable (don’t know how to get an accent out of this keyboard).


44 posted on 03/14/2010 12:24:15 PM PDT by squarebarb
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To: squarebarb

Dad is ninty and pronouces it that way because that’s how his family here in Indiana said it. The family were greenbacks* who came up the Mississippi and the Ohio Rivers. The settled in Southern Indiana and ran one of the early stone quarries (Before Oolitic was discovered) Several Courthouses in the southern part of the state have their names attacked as stone masons.

My sis jokes if they send the greenbacks back will we have to go too.


45 posted on 03/14/2010 12:56:37 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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