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    From cherryqzhang123@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Ronnie Dobbs on Thu Jul 23 15:12:48 2020
    On Thursday, July 6, 2006 at 10:32:59 PM UTC-4, Ronnie Dobbs wrote:
    brink wrote:
    Piggybacking off both the "Towns named after states" and "Towns named
    after foreign cities" thread:

    How many "mispronounced" town names are there out there? "Mispronounced"
    is dubious as both Nevada, MO (pronounced
    nuh-VAY-duh) and the state of Nevada (nuh-VA-duh) are a
    bastardization of the Spanish pronunciation. But suffice it to say
    90 percent of outsiders who pass through Nevada, MO would pronounce
    it as one would pronounce the state name. Wouldn't they? ;-)

    Acorn, AR is pronounced "AY-kurn" instead of "a-CORN", but it's not really a city.

    So like the nut?

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  • From John Levine@21:1/5 to cherryqzhang123@gmail.com on Thu Jul 23 23:03:11 2020
    In article <c1872025-da5d-4565-8792-482bfb182da7o@googlegroups.com>,
    <cherryqzhang123@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Thursday, July 6, 2006 at 10:32:59 PM UTC-4, Ronnie Dobbs wrote:
    brink wrote:
    Piggybacking off both the "Towns named after states" and "Towns named
    after foreign cities" thread:

    How many "mispronounced" town names are there out there? "Mispronounced" >> > is dubious as both Nevada, MO (pronounced
    nuh-VAY-duh) and the state of Nevada (nuh-VA-duh) are a
    bastardization of the Spanish pronunciation. But suffice it to say
    90 percent of outsiders who pass through Nevada, MO would pronounce
    it as one would pronounce the state name. Wouldn't they? ;-)

    Acorn, AR is pronounced "AY-kurn" instead of "a-CORN", but it's not really a >> city.

    So like the nut?

    Perhaps it's changed in the 14 years since that message was posted.

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  • From Arthur Whitter@21:1/5 to AGW on Fri Jul 24 06:25:47 2020
    On Thursday, July 6, 2006 at 10:29:57 PM UTC-6, AGW wrote:
    brink wrote:
    Piggybacking off both the "Towns named after states" and "Towns named after foreign cities" thread:

    How many "mispronounced" town names are there out there? "Mispronounced" is
    dubious as both Nevada, MO (pronounced nuh-VAY-duh) and the state of Nevada (nuh-VA-duh) are a bastardization of the Spanish pronunciation. But suffice
    it to say 90 percent of outsiders who pass through Nevada, MO would pronounce it as one would pronounce the state name. Wouldn't they? ;-)

    Another example is Peru, IN, which another poster point out is pronounced PEE-roo.

    I really have no idea if Sequim, WA is *supposed* to be pronounced "squim" instead of "SEE-quim," but I do know that the former is the proper way to say it among the locals and the latter will draw laughs.

    "Detroit" and "St. Croix" are other famous examples I suppose.

    There's another example at the tip of my brain in the midwest that I just cannot for the life of me remember, I just know that the spelling is identical to some nation or foreign city but the pronunciation is radically different... and quite funny in my opinion... ;-)

    brink

    Regina . . . capital of Saskatchewan . . . rhymes with angina. It's not
    the woman's name (ruh-gee-na).

    Pocatello, ID. poh-ka-tell-o, not pok-a-tello.

    Helena. If it's the capital of Montana, it's hel-uh-nuh. Don't know
    about Arkansas.


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    Helena, Arkansas (as pronounced by its former Governor, Bill Clinton) is huh-lay-na.

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  • From Mark Roberts@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 8 16:53:02 2020
    John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> had written:
    | In article <c1872025-da5d-4565-8792-482bfb182da7o@googlegroups.com>,
    | <cherryqzhang123@gmail.com> wrote:
    | >On Thursday, July 6, 2006 at 10:32:59 PM UTC-4, Ronnie Dobbs wrote:
    | >> brink wrote:
    | >> > Piggybacking off both the "Towns named after states" and "Towns named
    | >> > after foreign cities" thread:
    | >> >
    | >> > How many "mispronounced" town names are there out there? "Mispronounced" | >> > is dubious as both Nevada, MO (pronounced
    | >> > nuh-VAY-duh) and the state of Nevada (nuh-VA-duh) are a
    | >> > bastardization of the Spanish pronunciation. But suffice it to say
    | >> > 90 percent of outsiders who pass through Nevada, MO would pronounce
    | >> > it as one would pronounce the state name. Wouldn't they? ;-)
    | >>
    | >> Acorn, AR is pronounced "AY-kurn" instead of "a-CORN", but it's not really a
    | >> city.
    | >
    | >So like the nut?
    |
    | Perhaps it's changed in the 14 years since that message was posted.

    The newsgroup has a pulse!

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