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Old 03-04-2008, 11:25 AM
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I got a good one!

'La Vernia' is pronounced 'Luh-Vur-Nee-Uh'

Not like the Spanish pronouncation for La.
How about Luh-vern-ya...

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Old 03-04-2008, 04:03 PM
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Eye-zum or Is-um?

I've heard it both ways...

Funny I never realized how many weird pronunciations there are here in SA until reading this. I guess they are just second nature to me!!

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Eye-zum or Is-um?

I've heard it both ways...

Funny I never realized how many weird pronunciations there are here in SA until reading this. I guess they are just second nature to me!!
I say eye-zum.

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Old 03-04-2008, 04:15 PM
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OK, I say eye-zum, too, but one time I was test driving a car over there and the salesguy told me to turn on Is-um. It's not much of a road so I rarely hear it said. I thought maybe I had been saying it wrong all this time, but maybe he was just new in town.

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Old 03-04-2008, 05:10 PM
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is it "Eye-some"??? lol I always said "Iss-ome" also

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Old 03-04-2008, 10:54 PM
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It's "Eye-some" - at least that's how everyone in my family says it and they've lived here since the 1940s.

Though, sometimes when we're tired, lazy...or drunk...it does turn into "eye-zum"

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Old 03-17-2008, 01:42 AM
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BTT.

Can anyone answer post 117?

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Old 03-17-2008, 09:42 AM
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Kyle Seale Parkway.

Is it "Kile Seal" or "Kile Seal-ee"?
I've only heard it pronounced "Kile Seal-ee" by people who live in that area.

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Old 03-17-2008, 06:00 PM
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"Seale" is pronounced just like the seal that you can see at Sea World... (at least that is how Mr. Kyle Seale would pronounce it, and I think he should know)

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"Seale" is pronounced just like the seal that you can see at Sea World... (at least that is how Mr. Kyle Seale would pronounce it, and I think he should know)
Yep...if that's how the man pronounces it, then that's what it is. That was my point when I pronounced Alvarado "Al-vuh-rah-doh" and not "Al-vuh-ray-doh". That is how people with that last name pronounced it.

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