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ifyoucantfixit:


      There are lots of places around here that have names that are hard to pronounce if you don't
llive here..   There is the Willamette river.. We pronounce it will am it.  Strangers want to say
Will a met.  Then there is Puyallup...pronounced Pu al up.. and many many interpretations of it
are around. 

Jeff Wrangler:
Pennsylvania has a "Mount CAR-mul." I understand there is a "New MAD-rid" in Missouri and a "KAY-ro" (Cairo) in Illinois (and is that Ill-i-noy, Ill-uh-noy, Ill-i-noise, or Ill-uh-noise?).

The worst news reader mispronunciation I ever heard wasn't of a place name. One December when I was in junior high, a reader for the local TV station pronounced the name of the Jewish Festival of Lights as "Cha-NOO-kuh." He was fired forthwith.

MaineWriter:

--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 23, 2008, 09:04:04 am ---Pennsylvania has a "Mount CAR-mul." I understand there is a "New MAD-rid" in Missouri and a "KAY-ro" (Cairo) in Illinois (and is that Ill-i-noy, Ill-uh-noy, Ill-i-noise, or Ill-uh-noise?).


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Either one of the "noy" versions was the way I heard it when I lived there. They save the "s" sound for Des Plaines, pronounced "dess planes."

Here in Maine, Calais is callously pronounced "callous", not "kah - lay."

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Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: MaineWriter on April 23, 2008, 09:18:00 am ---Here in Maine, Calais is callously pronounced "callous", not "kah - lay."

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Back in the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries, that's how the English pronounced the name of that place in France across the strait from Dover.

Kerry:

Fun Poll! Here they are with my Aussie accent:  :D

ter-MAH-toe

per-TAYE-toe

GAr-rahge

Loo-ee-see-ANA (typical Aussie upward inflection at the end of a word)

New Or-LEENS

POOR-shah

ARSEk

TOY-let

WIN-doh

WASH-ing-tun

Kreek

PICK-chuh

CARnt

Dore

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