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lightdot | 5 years ago

Well, it really depends on when were these jokes introduced to someone...

They can hardly be marginally entertaining to someone 30 years ago if the person in question wasn't even born then! :)

But they can most certainly be marginally entertaining to this person today!

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dylan604|5 years ago

I wasn't born when people started pronouncing Houston St in New York as "House-ton" or Rodeo Dr as "RoDayO", yet that's the accepted pronunciation so that's what gets used.

jkaplowitz|5 years ago

Well, Houston St in New York is actually named after a person who called pronounced it "House-ton", not after the same Sam Houston as Houston, TX. This was the street's namesake, using an alternate spelling of the last name (spelling was in general less standardized back then):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Houstoun_(lawyer)

So, no joke involved in that case.