Why some people say "Preskit?" (Prescott: vs., trains)

[wretched wrench]

Originally Posted by BriansPerspective

My wife is incapable of saying 'bear'. She always says 'beer' .

That could generate some interesting camping stories.

[Frocio]

Originally Posted by wretched wrench

The truth is, the person who wears the name can pronounce it any way they wish.

True enough, wrong as they'll be. Ignorance is truly bliss for some.

[BlueCat1105]

Originally Posted by funflyer99

I'm a long time fan of the late great Marty Robbins so if he pronounces it "Pres-Cott" that's good enough for me. Go call your friend Scott "Skit" and see what he says. There was an old movie called "The Prescott Kid" with Walter Brennan so if any of you remember how he talked, he may have started the pronunciation "kit".

This made me think of the Christmas Story where the bully is Scutt Farkas. Maybe they should have called him Skitt too!

[wretched wrench]

I don't know right from wrong, but if I emphasize the first syllable strongly, cut and kit seem more effortless than cot.

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

Im from Southern California and as far as how a city is pronounced I am all messed up.

Grew up in Port Hueneme, Ca. It is pronounced

Spoiler

Port why-knee-me

Ojai, CA is a small city in Ventura County CA. It is pronounced

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oh hi

Camarillo, CA is a Spanish name but that does not keep people from messing up on how they say it.

Spoiler

Cam a rillo is how many say it but the proper way to say it is Cam a riyo, or Cam a Rio

For years when I read the word Yosemite I would say

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yose mite

[tumamoc]

This is how I have always heard it pronounced by Arizona old timers:

[Champ le monstre du lac]

Originally Posted by wretched wrench

The whole thing is moot, because the historian in whose honor the town was named was dead and in his grave when the town was named after him. He was never in Arizona, or perhaps never even west of Massachussetts. I doubt if anyone wrote down how he pronounced his name.

I grew up near a town called Swampscott in Massachusetts. A lot of the locals pronounced it "Swamp-skit". Perhaps its just the kind of lingo that is picked up on in the same way the city in Ohio is pronounced "Cleve-lind" instead of "Cleve-land"

[new2colo]

Being an "old timer" has nothing to do with it. I'm a transplants who pronounces it "Press-kit" and I have a coworker who is a native Arizonan who refuses to pronounce it any other way but "Press-cot."

[tumamoc]

Originally Posted by new2colo

Being an "old timer" has nothing to do with it. I'm a transplants who pronounces it "Press-kit" and I have a coworker who is a native Arizonan who refuses to pronounce it any other way but "Press-cot."

I think your situation is the less common scenario.

[wretched wrench]

Originally Posted by tumamoc

I think your situation is the less common scenario.

Same here.