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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are a native you pronounce the Glover in Glover Park to rhyme with lover, not over.[/quote]Actually I'm a transplant and I used to say Glover/lover for years until I read a John Kelly column in the WaPo stating that it's been pronounced Glover/over since the 40s. Apparently a surviving member of the Glover family says that her family pronounces it Glover/lover (and is therefore annoyed with the neighborhood practice) but what I read in the WaPo is that the neighborhood is really Glover/over and has been that way for a long time. Seriously, pp, it's embarrassing for me to have been wrong for lo these many years but that's what they wrote in the WaPo based on their investigations.[/quote] Regardless of what you read in the Post, Natives call it Glover (like lover). And we make the rules, so...[/quote]
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