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Old 01-25-2008, 05:07 PM
 
Location: Phoenix metro
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Whats funny is that Nevadans will be the first to correct you on how you should pronounce their state name, but everytime I go there they STILL dont know how to say Illinois correctly. Go figure.
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Old 01-25-2008, 05:20 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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Whats funny is that Nevadans will be the first to correct you on how you should pronounce their state name, but everytime I go there they STILL dont know how to say Illinois correctly. Go figure.
I guess that is your own experience. Frankly I doubt it.

Note the 4th paragraph comment about Illinois here: //www.city-data.com/forum/2548899-post11.html

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Old 01-25-2008, 05:29 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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The final "O" if pronounced would be Or-e-goin. It's not Ore-gawn mispronounced it's Ore-GONE the GONE mispronounciation. Correctly, it's a soft "O" Ore-GUN.
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Old 01-25-2008, 05:37 PM
 
Location: yeah
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The best way to remember is "or again."
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Old 01-25-2008, 07:45 PM
 
Location: The Heart of Dixie
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Ne-VAH-da is the Spanish way of saying it. If you say it that way then why don't you also say Tejas or Ca-li-Four-nia and Los An-heles LOL. People also do the same thing with Nebraska the way they do it with Nevada. Also some people say O-maha and other say Ah-maha.

I think Nevada and Nebraska as in "cat" sounds more American. Honestly I live all the way in Maryland and the only people who say Ne-VA-da are illegals and Mexicans.
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Old 01-25-2008, 07:46 PM
 
Location: The Heart of Dixie
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Oh yeah and with Ala-baa-ma too!
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Old 01-25-2008, 09:27 PM
 
Location: New Hampshire
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The final "O" if pronounced would be Or-e-goin. It's not Ore-gawn mispronounced it's Ore-GONE the GONE mispronounciation. Correctly, it's a soft "O" Ore-GUN.
Huh? The local pronunciation is "or-uh-g'n." That's not a short 'o' - if anything, it's more like a short 'i'.

The *incorrect* pronunciation is the one that gives full value to the short 'o' - "or-uh-gawn" in my accent, "or-uh-gahn" in others.

(By "gawn" I mean the way I pronounce "gone" - it's difficult to write anything phonetically in English, without using the IPA...)
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Old 01-25-2008, 09:46 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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CO New City Vegas Windows Media Audio Player :::: ~~~ Phonetic Pronunciation: kah-luh-RA-doe
NV New City Vegas Windows Media Audio Player :::: ~~~ Phonetic Pronunciation: neh-VA-duh
OR New City Vegas Windows Media Audio Player :::: ~~~ Phonetic Pronunciation: OR-ih-guhn

☆☆ Western States - How to Pronounce Nevada, Colorado, Oregon (broken link)
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Old 01-26-2008, 07:53 AM
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New City V's devotion to this subject has resulted in the (somewhat childish) desire to muster up my most nasally Chicago squawk (after a night out on the town when it is at its worst and gets mixed with some weirdo new englandese I can only imagine I channel from spending too much time with my grandmother) and call him or her up as a prank and repeat the names of said states a few times on his or her voice mail.

I'd bet money that I could give him/her a list of small towns in the New England area whose pronunciation (either in 'standard english' or regionally) would be most befuddling (Worcester is only one example).

I stand by my notion that having regional shibboleths can be fun as long as people don't take it all too seriously. I find the whole thing a bit amusing, but I find even more amusing how seriously some people seem to take it. It almost makes me want to continue the error of my ways, just to spite 'em

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Old 01-26-2008, 08:48 PM
 
Location: coos bay oregon
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LMAO!!! I like this thread. Frankly, i get a giggle out of some of the ways people pronounce Oregon. I like the ones that say Or-Gawn...lol
its not something i let bother me...
we've got some places around here too that unless you grew up here, they can be mighty difficult to pronounce!
Even the town I live in, some get really upset when people say it as Coozzz bay rather than Coos Bay. why waste worry on something like that? I'll tell people the right way to say Oregon, or some of our cities/towns, but its certainly nothing to freak out over! I do agree, some people just make WAY too much of it! silly....IMO
Tiff
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