I've been watching a lot of TV lately and I keep noticing that people can't agree on how to pronounce Palm Beach. News comentators from up north (That's anywhere north of Macon, Ga.) tend to say Poom Beach. I've even heard Pum Beach a time or two. I lived about 50 miles above the Palm Beach County line for a few years and as I remember, the people who live in the area say Pahm Beach. Or more often they pronounce the "l" softly. "Pahlm Beach" That is also the way it was pronounced on a special about Palm Beach the other night. Maybe you saw it. It had nothing to do with the election. It was about the up-scale community on the east side of Lake Wales. This is not to be confused with West Palm Beach which is in another socio-economic galaxy. I drove through Palm Beach a few times many years ago and I remember masonary walls with iron gates and houses as big as hotels. They were mostly Mediterranean or Spanish style. And lots of big black cars, too.
Now where did I get so far off the original subject?
Howard