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So you think that people mispronouncing the name of one of the US states shouldn't be corrected, but it should just be suggested that maybe they might want think about pronouncing it right?
I do so apologize to you, for trying to eradicate ignorance.
So you think that people mispronouncing the name of one of the US states shouldn't be corrected, but it should just be suggested that maybe they might want think about pronouncing it right?
I do so apologize to you, for trying to eradicate ignorance.
Almost every state is mispronounced by outsiders, to some degree. California was mispronounced by Arnold Schwartzenegger, and people started pronouncing with his German accent, making it standard, and therefore "correct". Colorado, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Joizey, New Hampsha, Utah, Wisconsin, are all states in which the local residents can detect an outsider by the way they pronounce it, but again, they are too polite to rag on people for doing so.
I do so apologize to you, for trying to eradicate boorish insolence, haughty discourtesy and condescension.
So you think that people mispronouncing the name of one of the US states shouldn't be corrected, but it should just be suggested that maybe they might want think about pronouncing it right?
I do so apologize to you, for trying to eradicate ignorance.
You might consider trying to eradicate arrogance instead. It was indeed a perfect prediction.
Almost every state is mispronounced by outsiders, to some degree. California was mispronounced by Arnold Schwartzenegger, and people started pronouncing with his German accent, making it standard, and therefore "correct". Colorado, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Joizey, New Hampsha, Utah, Wisconsin, are all states in which the local residents can detect an outsider by the way they pronounce it, but again, they are too polite to rag on people for doing so.
I do so apologize to you, for trying to eradicate boorish insolence, haughty discourtesy and condescension.
You've failed, since you're displaying quite a bit of it.
And FYI. Random people mispronouncing something, and 90% of the population mispronouncing something is quite a bit different.
You might consider trying to eradicate arrogance instead. It was indeed a perfect prediction.
You go 50 some years with people unable to pronounce your state name ... and I'll get back to you. So it offends me. Why does that make me arrogant? Doesn't ignorance offend you? And if not, why not?
Look, I don't mind nearly as much when random people get it wrong as when newscasters, movies, etc. do. Kind of like it offends me that newscasters in the UK mispronounce Barack Obama. They say BARE-ack. That's clearly wrong, and I just don't get why they can't say it right.
You go 50 some years with people unable to pronounce your state name ... and I'll get back to you. So it offends me. Why does that make me arrogant? Doesn't ignorance offend you? And if not, why not?
Look, I don't mind nearly as much when random people get it wrong as when newscasters, movies, etc. do. Kind of like it offends me that newscasters in the UK mispronounce Barack Obama. They say BARE-ack. That's clearly wrong, and I just don't get why they can't say it right.
I've been many years with people unable to pronounce the name of the township I grew up in correctly, Oregon township. I don't know why you guys in that western state can't get it right. It's Or-eh-gahn. Same goes for that city in Texas that has a name that everyone else on the planet pronounces house-ton, but they seem to insist it's hyoo-ston. People in different areas pronounce things differently. If that *offends* you, then that's your own problem.
After a while it just looks like you are looking for reasons to get offended. And that isn't particularly the reason you come off as arrogant. Doublecheck your responses on this thread and "get back to me", as you say.
Almost every state is mispronounced by outsiders, to some degree. California was mispronounced by Arnold Schwartzenegger, and people started pronouncing with his German accent, making it standard, and therefore "correct". Colorado, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Joizey, New Hampsha, Utah, Wisconsin, are all states in which the local residents can detect an outsider by the way they pronounce it, but again, they are too polite to rag on people for doing so.
I do so apologize to you, for trying to eradicate boorish insolence, haughty discourtesy and condescension.
That's not pronouncing it "wrong", or the way we say it, that's people making fun of us because they think WE say it that way. No one here says it like that and anyone who comes in here saying it like that to us is just being an a**hole.
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