It's my opinion that the way the natives say their town names determines their pronunciations. I grew up in Waltham, pronounced "Wall-THAM." It drives me nuts when people call it "Wall-thum." I also say "Pee-buddy" because that's the way the locals say it. I used to say "Pell-um" for "Pelham" until I found out that they say "Pell-ham." I should have guessed since it follows the same rule as Waltham. Same for Windham, NH, too. There's a "ham" at the end of it. :-)
don’t like the sound of this....hope Brown has really GOTV:
“The last minute get-out-the-vote effort by Coakley has been massive, employing a battalion of as many as 3,500 volunteers, many dispatched by the AFL-CIO and SEIU, to take to the fields and man phone banks. (By contrast a Brown official has said the campaign had only about 500 volunteers as of the weekend).”
Still, I think he wins.
LOL .. Yep .. every place there
has its own quirkiness.