My favorite story is the one we had up here with the London Free Press several years ago...
First paragraph came out fine.
Second paragraph had a ew errors in it.
Third pragraph was all greqrtrhwotnbengngnrnr'ed...
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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And the newspaper did not give you a key to the code?
A few years ago, I called a local television station after one of the local news specialists mispronounced "Biloxi" (in Mississippi). It sounds, properly, like "B'luxi" (as in Lux soap). Another town along the coast is Pass CHRISTi ann (short I and i).
What will the uneducated do with Guyandotte and Ouachita?
Johnny
John WR How do you pronounce Cairo in Georgia? Here in New Jersey I would pronounce it Ky-row.
How do you pronounce Cairo in Georgia? Here in New Jersey I would pronounce it Ky-row.
It's pronounced "KAY-ro" (per a recent thread, Cairo IL is pronounced the same way). Counterintuitively given its spelling, Ochlocknee is pronounced "Oke-LOCK-nee". To the natives, Albany GA is "All-BENNY".
Deggesty And the newspaper did not give you a key to the code? A few years ago, I called a local television station after one of the local news specialists mispronounced "Biloxi" (in Mississippi). It sounds, properly, like "B'luxi" (as in Lux soap). Another town along the coast is Pass CHRISTi ann (short I and i). What will the uneducated do with Guyandotte and Ouachita?
From experience, some people pronounce Ouachita as "Ow (as in ouch)-uh-chee-tuh". That marked them immediately as outsiders, at least in Arkansas.
Ouray, Colorado.
Any guesses?
Norm
Can't forget La Jolla, CA. Those familiar with Spanish won't have a problem with it, but...
And Mackinac Island, MI (and the Straits of Mackinac, etc). Although "Michilimackinac" is pronounced exactly as written.
la hoya
mackinaw (and it is sometimes written as such).
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Norm48327 Ouray, Colorado. Any guesses?
oo..ray
SALfan Deggesty And the newspaper did not give you a key to the code? A few years ago, I called a local television station after one of the local news specialists mispronounced "Biloxi" (in Mississippi). It sounds, properly, like "B'luxi" (as in Lux soap). Another town along the coast is Pass CHRISTi ann (short I and i). What will the uneducated do with Guyandotte and Ouachita? From experience, some people pronounce Ouachita as "Ow (as in ouch)-uh-chee-tuh". That marked them immediately as outsiders, at least in Arkansas.
As to the names, "Ouachita" and "Guyandotte," I have the impression that they are both French spellings of Indian names, just as Quebec is the French spelling of the Indian "Kebec." When I was quite young, I came across the French name "Guillaume," and I pronounced it with a hard "g"--and my mother corrected me, telling me that the proper pronunciation was more like "Wee'ome" (which is the French equivalent of "William"); you get a tiny bit of a"g" in there, but very little..
You-ray. Leave out the O at the beginning.
I didn't know either till a friend who was raised there told me.
Anyone not from Georgia want to take a stab at Taliaferro? It is the county Crawfordville, GA is located in. The Georgia Railroad mainline, now CSX, runs thru it. You have seen Crawfordville Georgia if you have seen the small town scenes in the movie "Sweet Home Alabama" as well as a number of other movies over the years.
Jay
garr Anyone not from Georgia want to take a stab at Taliaferro? It is the county Crawfordville, GA is located in. The Georgia Railroad mainline, now CSX, runs thru it. You have seen Crawfordville Georgia if you have seen the small town scenes in the movie "Sweet Home Alabama" as well as a number of other movies over the years. Jay
TOL-i-ver? That's how a friend of mine pronounces his last name, spelled the same way. Don't know the answer, even though I'm a Georgia native - Taliaferro County is a "purty fur piece" north of my old stomping grounds.
SALfan TOL-i-ver? That's how a friend of mine pronounces his last name, spelled the same way. Don't know the answer, even though I'm a Georgia native - Taliaferro County is a "purty fur piece" north of my old stomping grounds.
SALfan is correct--Pronounced as T in front of Oliver. Still have never figured how that comes from the spelling.
Jay, perhaps it is an English pronunciation; the English have been known to greatly compress the pronunciation of some words; e.g. Cholmondelay is "Chumley;" Worchester is "Wooster:' Worchestershire is "Woostershr." And, I know the proper name "Prioleau." For many years, a man with this as his middle name was our congressman (he went by an abbreviation of his surname)--and he had an uncle and a first cousin who had the same name (they all had the same first name, also). To save you all the agony of determining how to pronounce this name, I will tell you: "Praylow." Please do not ask me how it is so; I do not have the slightest idea.
My last name is one syllable (ignore the "ty;" that is not a part of the family name), to rhyme with "eggs;" my wife would say that if you could pronounce it, you could not spell it, if you could spell it, you could not pronouce it.
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