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View Poll Results: How do you pronounce Colorado?
Col-o-rad-o 69 38.55%
Col-o-rod-o 94 52.51%
Neither/Both ways 16 8.94%
Voters: 179. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-30-2010, 01:44 PM
 
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Originally Posted by bulldogdad View Post
Co-lo-rrrah-dough. It's a damn Spanish word. If your going to steal it at least pronounce it correctly.
I see how it is, you're going to play the scholarship and knowledge card on us, huh? Anybody can win an argument if they know stuff and all...

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Old 10-30-2010, 02:07 PM
 
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Co-lo-rrrah-dough. It's a damn Spanish word. If your going to steal it at least pronounce it correctly.
Co-lo-rad-o.

I don't try to pronounce British cities like I have a thick English accent. I've always fond it faintly ridiculous and jarring listening to people rattling on in relatively unaccented English suddenly trying to act like they have an extremely thick Spanish accent for one word, usually a city or name...very common among newscasters, but still ridiculous.

[Kansas City accent]"And today, over by the dump, a pickup truck dropped off a load of trash in[/Kansas City accent]
[Colombian accent]Soledad de Graciano Sanchez"[/Colombian accent]
 
Old 10-30-2010, 02:16 PM
 
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Co-lo-rad-o.

I don't try to pronounce British cities like I have a thick English accent. I've always fond it faintly ridiculous and jarring listening to people rattling on in relatively unaccented English suddenly trying to act like they have an extremely thick Spanish accent for one word, usually a city or name...very common among newscasters, but still ridiculous.

[Kansas City accent]"And today, over by the dump, a pickup truck dropped off a load of trash in[/Kansas City accent]
[Colombian accent]Soledad de Graciano Sanchez"[/Colombian accent]
I agree. This isn't mexico or spain.
 
Old 10-30-2010, 02:44 PM
 
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Get over yourselves gente it was a HaHa. LOL.
 
Old 10-30-2010, 02:45 PM
 
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I see how it is, you're going to play the scholarship and knowledge card on us, huh? Anybody can win an argument if they know stuff and all...
LMAO well just be careful next time.
 
Old 10-30-2010, 03:41 PM
 
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I agree. This isn't mexico or spain.
Agreed. Would love to see someone wander around Durango pronouncing it Dur-on-go. They'd get some "wth" looks.

This has been mentioned before but a lot of old time residents pronounced it Col-or-a-duh.
 
Old 10-30-2010, 04:09 PM
 
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It seems most people are "rad" vs. "rod." It also seems as there really isn't a consensus, unlinke Nevada and Oregon where there is a definite way people who live there pronounce the state.

I guess it's like "Pueblo." I met an old native who kept calling in "Pe-eh-bl-uh." Many who live there say "Pweblo."

It's interesting that a town like Durango is Americanized, but Canon City, Pueblo, and Saguache are not.
 
Old 10-30-2010, 05:00 PM
 
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Most every Colorado native I know pronounces it with the Spanish pronunciation. Midwesterners and other transplants and pilgrims usually are the ones saying Colo-ra-do with the short "a", rather than the "ah" Spanish pronunciation. The number who responded to the poll by voting for the bastardized English pronunciation just show how overrun the state is with non-natives . . . 'nuff said.
 
Old 10-30-2010, 06:20 PM
 
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Most every Colorado native I know pronounces it with the Spanish pronunciation. Midwesterners and other transplants and pilgrims usually are the ones saying Colo-ra-do with the short "a", rather than the "ah" Spanish pronunciation. The number who responded to the poll by voting for the bastardized English pronunciation just show how overrun the state is with non-natives . . . 'nuff said.
Maybe in your part of the state but I can tell you that my Dur-ayn-go relatives (whose roots go back there before its 1881 founding) pronounce it with a rad, not a rod and as I said before the really old ones around there put a "duh" on the end of it. Remember that most of the new arrivals came from the Midwest, even way back then and handed their speechways down through the generations.
 
Old 10-30-2010, 06:41 PM
 
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Most every Colorado native I know pronounces it with the Spanish pronunciation. Midwesterners and other transplants and pilgrims usually are the ones saying Colo-ra-do with the short "a", rather than the "ah" Spanish pronunciation. The number who responded to the poll by voting for the bastardized English pronunciation just show how overrun the state is with non-natives . . . 'nuff said.
Wow. Bummer. Too bad you can't close off the state's borders, I guess you'll just have to live in abject misery.

Maybe you should leave...but then you'd be somewhere were somebody's family had been there for generations carping on you for looking for someplace nice. You'd probably think that was extremely rude, and get tired of them never SHUTTING UP ABOUT IT.
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