I am enjoying listening to these but I can't help but get a bit irritated with the way he says some words wrong. Arkansas and Xavier are two that come to mind right off.
They are period correct colloquial pronunciations. As an old Texan that grew up with Texian as my first language, I think the reader did a pretty fair job with the language. McMurtry certainly wrote it with period and location correct grammar. I did notice an instance where the reader changed a pronunciation. The Old cook, Bolivar, for the first several mentions is pronounced Bō’-li-vär as the character is being developed. After the first few chapters he changes the pronunciation to the still-current Texas pronunciation of that name (and place) as Bah’-luh-vr. As for Arkansas, pronunciation is location dependent. The Arkansas River, in the state of Kansas, is pronounced r-Kan’-zus. In the state of Arkansas it’s Ark’-in-saw.
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I am enjoying listening to these but I can't help but get a bit irritated with the way he says some words wrong. Arkansas and Xavier are two that come to mind right off.
Yes, it took me a while to get used to it, too
They are period correct colloquial pronunciations. As an old Texan that grew up with Texian as my first language, I think the reader did a pretty fair job with the language. McMurtry certainly wrote it with period and location correct grammar. I did notice an instance where the reader changed a pronunciation. The Old cook, Bolivar, for the first several mentions is pronounced Bō’-li-vär as the character is being developed. After the first few chapters he changes the pronunciation to the still-current Texas pronunciation of that name (and place) as Bah’-luh-vr.
As for Arkansas, pronunciation is location dependent. The Arkansas River, in the state of Kansas, is pronounced r-Kan’-zus. In the state of Arkansas it’s Ark’-in-saw.
Yes, keep in mind the narrator is a 1880s speaker. Aa another person pointed out.
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