Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish settlement in Virginia: extracted ..., Volume 3 By Augusta County (Va.), Lyman Chalkley
page 441, 497
I think it's interesting to notice how place names were spelt back then. Shanandore and Shanando are closer to how my mother pronounces Shenandoah than that spelling would suggest. I say "shehn ahn doe uh" just like someone not from the area, saying the word based on the letters I see. My mother says "Shanandore" or "Shanando", absolutely, 40+ years in Utah wearing her Virginia accent down will not erase certain things. Thank God. I will be glad if in 30 years someone can detect I am from Southern Utah by the way I say Escalante, Salina, Levan, and creek. The beautiful thing for how Shenandoah is perhaps supposed to be pronounced is that it is probably closer to the original Shawnee way than my modern interpretation. That, of course, is all beside the point of whether or not Samuel Lockhart is my relative or no.
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