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12-10-2007, 01:50 AM
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Location: Highest county in the Virginia hills
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Originally Posted by lammius
Also, apart from Newark's Norfolk Street, the pronunciations I talked about were how people talk to me about Norfolk, VA.
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Ah, I misunderstood. Well, if we could get the people of Norfolk, Va. to agree on how their town is pronounced, then we could tell everyone else how to say it. |
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12-10-2007, 01:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Juan Hau-Lee
This is not about the "correct" as in language of of origin pronunciation of cities and states but about what the LOCALS have come to call them.
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Well, it's a semantic issue, but I would contend that the long-standing local pronunciations, by definition, ARE the correct pronunciation. |
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12-10-2007, 02:05 AM
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drives me crazy when people say Des Moines as DEZ - MOINES, its DE - MOINE damnit!
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12-10-2007, 02:39 AM
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There's beauty in the solace of not giving a damn.
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Location: Chicago
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When you're in the Pittsburgh area, don't you dare pronounce the suburb of Carnegie "CAR-nuh-ghee" or ask for directions to "CAR-nuh-gee Mellon University." It's Car-NAY-gee.
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12-10-2007, 02:50 AM
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Location: Oahu, Hawaii
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Paso...
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Originally Posted by Steve-o
I believe it would be pronounced "robe-lace", not "robe-less". Am I correct in that?
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You are right that the Spanish pronunciation is "robe-lace" but the locals say "robe-uls". I remember my co-workers who lived there just called it "Paso". I understand that enough people from So. Cal have moved in and now want the place called El Paso De Robles... My, how sophisticated!! 
Must be all that good wine. |
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12-10-2007, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by j33
I've always thought it was pronounced "woostahshore" sauce. At least, that was how I was taught to say it, and it stuck.
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We called it "wustashir" where I grew up (WNY) |
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12-10-2007, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by spark240
Well, it's a semantic issue, but I would contend that the long-standing local pronunciations, by definition, ARE the correct pronunciation.
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I gotta agree with this. Who are we to tell the locals how to talk! |
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12-10-2007, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by LPerkins33
drives me crazy when people say Des Moines as DEZ - MOINES, its DE - MOINE damnit!
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Why was Peter Griffin driving through Iowa? Isn't Wall Drug in South Dakota? 
Michigan has a lot of French place names. My dad loves to mess with them, because it annoys my mom. |
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12-10-2007, 05:51 PM
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Bellefontaine, Ohio
Pronounced "Bell fountain"
Looks like belafontain as my southern way of saying it!
Murfreesboro, Tn
Pronouned Mur-freeze-burro.
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12-11-2007, 10:21 AM
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Puyallup, WA
PEW - all - UP
this one is always fun to hear on the news
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