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Don't feel bad, Sunny. A lot of the names of roads here are scottish and get mangled by those who haven't been around oldtimers who have passed down the "correct" pronunciation.
This also happens with the names of towns.
That scottish accent also was often incorrectly "interpreted" by the Germans and so their way of pronouncing scottish names muddied up succeeding pronounciations, too.
Tracing the pronunciation of words here is very interesting (to me, anyway).
Too funny. I live in the heart of "Reaville". Old Man Rea, as we call him, lives on Rea Road not far from us and belongs to our swim club. I've heard that he has a free lifetime membership because his family donated the land to the club in the 60's. Not sure if that's true. I've never heard it pronounced any other way than "Ray".
I dont feel to bad because I dont live near or ever been on that road.
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Originally Posted by anifani821
Don't feel bad, Sunny. A lot of the names of roads here are scottish and get mangled by those who haven't been around oldtimers who have passed down the "correct" pronunciation.
This also happens with the names of towns.
That scottish accent also was often incorrectly "interpreted" by the Germans and so their way of pronouncing scottish names muddied up succeeding pronounciations, too.
Tracing the pronunciation of words here is very interesting (to me, anyway).
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