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THANK YOU. I thought I was wrong, but I didn't live there. It's ALWAYS been "Pa-sake" as far as I know, and we used to laugh (giving away my age here) because Corporal Agarn from F-Troop was supposedly from Passaic, NJ, and he pronounced it wrong.
The fake computer-woman voice on my NJ Transit train says it the three-syllable way, too. It annoys me.
It kinda annoys me too...I immediately think, "OK this person definitely was not born here" lol.
IDK, I still stick by my pronunciation of Passaic as "Puss-say-ick". I also am a native of the town. I was born in General hospital (back when it was called that, LOL) and lived there for 11 years. My mother also lived there for 30 years and she pronounces it the same way.
We always get told "you guys are true natives" by others who grew up there b/c of our pronounciation.
I think this is just going to be a po-tay-toe/po-tah-toe issue. I was born in St. Mary's...I lived there for 16 years and attended pre-school to my 2nd year of PHS. I grew up south of the HS and never heard it pronouced any other way with my classmates, friends, and such.
how about Succasunna, naughnight, Carteret, Metedeconk...
Who came up with these names anyway
When we looked at a house in Wanaque, I pronounced it we ne ki ; the realtor was lauging
Most people from Carteret purnounce it Caw-Teh -Wet
Car-ter-et isn't wrong either so isn't Car-tur - et
But at rutgers when i heard people purnounce it Car-ter - rat or Car -ter - eet i have ot correct them,.
With me being a Pittsburgher and having a Pittsburgh accent when I say Newark it sounds almost like I am saying "New York" really fast. I always wanted to know how it was pronounced. I never really knew our accent was that bad untill I was in Newark and New York and the locals couldn't understand what we were saying.
I went to college in Pittsburgh--love the city and the accent, which Garrison Keillor once said evolved from people having to talk without breathing
A few non-standard pronunciations for nearby towns there:
Du Bois = "DEW-boys"
North Versailles = "ver-SAILS"
Well... if you're that disturbed by a 4 year old thread, you might also note that the other poster was talking about the second "T" in Trenton and then likened it to how people pronounce Boonton.
Hey, I myself like jumping into old threads just to add my own 2 cents. NJ town pronunciation isn't all that bad and certainly isn't on the same level of Massachusetts. Anybody ever been to Peabody (peeb'dee) MA or how about Worcester (Wooster)? There are at least 10 others in MA where the pronunciation is almost nothing like the way they are spelled.
Back to NJ. The one that kills me is Bernardsville. It is NOT "BerNARDSville" it is pronouced "BerNERDS Ville" and pause between the "s" and the "v" otherwise you will never be able to hob nob with the multi trillionaires that lives there.
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