I can't take it anymore. (quote, stories, words)

[Retriever]

Originally Posted by Sudcaro

In England there's a city called Reading - pronounced "redding".

Originally Posted by P47P47

There's a city in Pennsylvania by that name, too.

And a railroad on the Monopoly board.

Yes, there are a city and a railroad in the US with that name, but--even more relevant to this topic--they are both pronounced, "redding".

[P47P47]

Originally Posted by Retriever

Yes, there are a city and a railroad in the US with that name, but--even more relevant to this topic--they are both pronounced, "redding".

Which is why I mentioned them.

[picklejuice]

This is from a recent thread on CD:

"How easy is it for females to get intercoarse compared with men?"

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by Rubi3

Even if Grenada is pronounced Gren-ay-da in only two places in the world, that's the way it's pronounced and making excuses for an anchorman? Perhaps, if English were his second language. Also, hyphens do not belong in mispronunciation or misspelling. The words are misspelled. Just sayin

I bet there is not one anchorman in 100 who can correctly pronounce the town I grew up in.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by southward bound

A word spelled "Houston" should be pronounced the same way every time no matter where it's found on the map.

Who gets to decide which way that is? How do you make people change, in places that have always pronounced it the "wrong"way?

Does that also apply to English words that are not proper names, like "read" or "lead" or "close" or "bow"?

[P47P47]

Eldorado, Arkansas, is pronounced with a long "a" sound.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Sudcaro

A word that drives some foreign learners nuts is "read", because it's either pronounced "reed" or "red", depending on which tense you use.
In England there's a city called Reading - pronounced "redding".

It's pronounced that way in Pennsylvania, too!

Edit: Oops, was a little late to that conversation.

[Mightyqueen801]

I watched one of the episodes of "How The States Got Their Shapes" last night and was surprised to hear "Appalachia" pronounced "Appa-latch-ia". We have always made it a long "a", "Appa-lay-chia", and this is the first time I ever heard it said differently.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by in_newengland

I think it's just a nutty language with so many imported words and so many different influences that we can't help but end up with different pronunciations.

For instance, where I lived there's an Amherst pronounced Am-erst --nd there's an Amherst pronounced Am-Hurst in New Hampshire. I know Am-herst was named after Lord Jeffrey Amherst, a British soldier (General, I think). Maybe Am-Hurst was named after him too. But the towns somehow ended up pronouncing his name differently and have done so for many years. Nothing wrong with it, that's just the way it is because that's the way it evolved.

We had a town called Greenwich, pronounced Green-Wich. There are other towns pronounced Gren-ich. I think they're both correct.

Once upon a time, the next town north of Nieuw Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan, was Greenwich. Eventually it became swallowed by the expanding city, renamed New York. It still exists as a neighborhood called Greenwich Village, and it is pronounced Gren-ich.

In Canada, there is a province called Newfoundland, pronounced "NYOOfinlind." In New Jersey, there is a town called Newfoundland, pronounced "NyooFOUNDlind".

[P47P47]

Newark, New Jersey, is pronounced as "Nuark".

Newark, Delaware, is pronounced as "New Ark".