[at-l] Way Off Topic

[Phil.Heffington@oc.edu (Phil Heffington)]

Anyone know why Pierre, South Dakota is pronounced "Peer" instead of "Pe yair"?   A doctor told me it had something to do with a poem in which "Pierre" had to rhyme with "here", and it stuck.  I've searched the net and can't seem to locate the poem, or the reason for the pronunciation.

I guess you would have to take a hard left turn to the northwest at Duncannon, PA to make this trail related.