[or-roots] Found him

[ilightle2 at hotmail.com]

Les,
Now I'm laughing out loud! I massacre anything French  but do know NOT to 
pronounce the terminal 's'. Maine is heavy in the balance with French 
ancestry and they butcher French place names with righteous abandon. This 
state is also home to some of the longest Indian place names I've ever seen 
in print. I lived in Germany for five years (kind of an immersion 
experiment) and when I came back I pronounced anything I didn't recognize 
using the phonetics of the German alphabet, English syllable structuring and 
a Colorado accent. The result was hilarious and I can hardly wait to move 
back West after being on the East Coast for a such a long time. Need a good 
laugh?
Yes, I read 'bated' and my brain went  'baited? - nooo'
Ingrid