Okay, it is June - eee - at - uh....right?
Dale, I'm partial to You - CLUE - let.
And Tims, that was something to be proud of.! The correct (closest I can get) pronounciation is:
Eh - ya - fiAT - la - YOkootch Don't say it when any social workers are around. They pack you off.
-Crandell
garr Being in the south, how do you think Martinez, GA just outside of Augusta is pronounced? Jay
Being in the south, how do you think Martinez, GA just outside of Augusta is pronounced?
Jay
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Seriously, I thought it was Nan-YIGH-Moe.-Norris in Sow-duh-Coe-duh, the state south of NORT ! Uh-coat-uh.
Wow! This could be fun! As a multi-lingual (6) army interpreter (all European) it might prove challenging. I have cousins (Jack & Tess Hanlin) that live in Chaumont, NY, ex-of the New York Central. Cool place! Yar, Cajon is the proper spelling. I hate to transliterate, but "Kay-HONE" is close. Kind of rhymes with pugga ma hon in Gaidhlig. Crandell: For more info, send me some "Naniamo Bars". It has been a long time since I had one! P. S.: I do have a Watertown Times clipping of the "last train from Clayton"!
Hays
The ButlerJuniata Locomotive ShopsHow is Juniata pronounced? Also, is it Read-ing or Red-ing Railroad?
Juniata Locomotive Shops
How is Juniata pronounced? Also, is it Read-ing or Red-ing Railroad?
samfp1943garr Being in the south, how do you think Martinez, GA just outside of Augusta is pronounced? Jay Jay: I am not sure of the Georgia-correct pronunciation, I would suspect that it is all about a long aaaaaaa! I had enough of a time when my neighbors pronounced "Faye'vil" for Fayetteville, and I pretty much gave up on Atlanta, and it was Hot-Lanta or shortly "ATL" in e-mail correspondence, VI-day- Li-a (my favorite onion) was Va-dal-ya to the locals. It's a great country ( or COUNTRIES, with A TIP O THA' HAT TO DALE& CRANDELL), if you don't let its' linguistic Idiosyncrasies drive you over the edge!
Jay:
I am not sure of the Georgia-correct pronunciation, I would suspect that it is all about a long aaaaaaa!
I had enough of a time when my neighbors pronounced "Faye'vil" for Fayetteville, and I pretty much gave up on Atlanta, and it was Hot-Lanta or shortly "ATL" in e-mail correspondence, VI-day- Li-a (my favorite onion) was Va-dal-ya to the locals.
It's a great country ( or COUNTRIES, with A TIP O THA' HAT TO DALE& CRANDELL),
if you don't let its' linguistic Idiosyncrasies drive you over the edge!
James and Sam,
As far as Martinez, GA--the i is totally disregarded so it is pronounced Mart--nez. One of those words that identifies visitors.
Now try Taliaferro which is a county here in Georgia roughly half way between Atlanta and Augusta.
I'm guessing the I is silent...
We can't forget "Dew-rand", either.
Not far from here is Madrid - in this case pronounced "Mad-drid," emphasis on the first syllable.
Also not far from here is Lowville. The "ville" is normal, but the "low" is pronounced "lau", not "lo" with a long O. It was on the Utica & Black River (which mileposts are still used today) as well as being one end of the Lowville & Beaver River, now part of the GVT family, if inactive.
Chaumont was on the original main of the Rome and Watertown, predecessor to the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg, which at one time ran many of the rails north of today's NYS Thruway and west of the Adirondacks. The RW&O joined the Central family around 1900 or so.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Anyone (Sam?) happen to know why Kansas and Arkansas don't rhyme? Since Arkansas was a territory in 1819, and Kansas not until 1854, surely everyone in Kansas already knew how Arkansas was pronounced?
When sitting in the Worcester Massachusetts station in 1952 on The New England States I learned how to properly pronounce this city; and that I was on the B&A not NYC according to the conductor.
Paul_D_North_JrThe Butler Juniata Locomotive Shops How is Juniata pronounced? Also, is it Read-ing or Red-ing Railroad? Crandell/ selector has Juniata correctly above, as I know it. Reading is "Red-ing" for both the railroad and its namesake city. - Paul North. (just down Mauch Chunk Road from Hokendauqua, Catasauqua, Tamaqua, Nesquehoning, and a few others of like kind . . . ).
The Butler Juniata Locomotive Shops How is Juniata pronounced? Also, is it Read-ing or Red-ing Railroad?
aricat When sitting in the Worcester Massachusetts station in 1952 on The New England States I learned how to properly pronounce this city; and that I was on the B&A not NYC according to the conductor.
While not a station stop, the first town you passed through west of Worcester was Leicester (less-ter). A little further west you would also run parallel to the Quaboag (kway-bog) River.
nanaimo73 Anyone (Sam?) happen to know why Kansas and Arkansas don't rhyme? Since Arkansas was a territory in 1819, and Kansas not until 1854, surely everyone in Kansas already knew how Arkansas was pronounced?
Actually, in Colorado, Arkansas (the river) and Kansas do rhyme. This is according to my mother, who worked for the VA in Fort Lyon in 1949-1950.
CSSHEGEWISCHActually, in Colorado, Arkansas (the river) and Kansas do rhyme.
Dale:
The Kansas pronunciation of Arkansas is 'ARE' Kansas'. I live near the ARE Kansas River- and growing up around Memphis; I guess I've mistakenly pronounced 'Ar ken Saw' most all my life. But I'm adjusting-slowly
I'm still having problems with 'cricks', vs. creeks-- and am ,I now live on Euphrates Crick!
I can only imagine what it must be like up in the far Northwest! I am sure what the Indians diden't name the Eskimos; did....and then you have to deal with the unreconstructed french who won't even try to speak anything but their own French.
I used to go down into the Evangeline Country of Louisiana, pretty often. Most of those folks were anxious to go up to french speaking Canada. Their biggest disappointment was finding out, when 'up there', their brand of French was unintelligible to the Canadian Francophiles. It was the collision of French, and English and the resultant idioms were something of a calamity. You might refer to the results as kind of a Franglish.... Maybe, some day the CN will be able to aford to hire a crew to paint their cars and they can paint both sides the same...I guess, that's like getting the French to work with those illegals who only speak English!
Bruce KellyBut I give him credit for having taught me that Lancaster, CA, and Lancaster, PA, don't sound the same.
I grew up in LANCaster county, S. C., and when I was living in Pickens county (named for Andrew Pickens, an S. C. patriot) in Alabama, I met some LanCASTers whose forebears had come form S. C. in the early nineteenth century.
Larry, thank you for the pronunciation of Gananoque (We have some pronunciation headaches around here - both from the French and the native American place names - Chaumont (sha MOE) and Gananoque (gan an AH quay) are two often massacred by "furriners."); I would never have guessed it.
Johnny
If you ever find youself in Columbia, S.C. we have a couple of streets that have French names, Gervais and Huger. Whenever the local TV stations hire a midwesterner to read the news I wonder why someone from the station doesn't give these folks some sort of orientation before putting them on the air. There seems to be a rule that no one that speaks with a Southern accent will be employed as a so called TV journalist (news reader).
baberuth73There seems to be a rule that no one that speaks with a Southern accent will be employed as a so called TV journalist (news reader).
I once read an article about accents that pointed out this in one movie ("Fried Green Tomatoes?") the four protagonists (all women) spoke with different southern accents, although I don't recall what they were. There are actually some variations that are quite pleasant to hear, but others, well...
baberuth73 If you ever find youself in Columbia, S.C. we have a couple of streets that have French names, Gervais and Huger. Whenever the local TV stations hire a midwesterner to read the news I wonder why someone from the station doesn't give these folks some sort of orientation before putting them on the air. There seems to be a rule that no one that speaks with a Southern accent will be employed as a so called TV journalist (news reader).
As to different southern accents, I have noticed a great difference as to what is spoken in Charlotte, N. C., and in Baton Rouge, and what is spoken in Reform, Ala., and Columbus, Miss. (30 miles apart).
DeggestyAs to different southern accents, I have noticed a great difference as to what is spoken in Charlotte, N. C., and in Baton Rouge, and what is spoken in Reform, Ala., and Columbus, Miss. (30 miles apart).
I grew up in Georgia and now live in Oregon and when I hear a someone with a southern accent I can almost always get what state they are from. And even going back to visit family in Georgia I can hear the accent when growing up I would have said they did not have not one.
After I picked my mouth up from the floor I said. " River Forest a bit east of LaGrange, how could you tell?" "Oh, my wife's from Downer's Grove, I recognized the accent."
Now, I know there's a midwest accent, and I know there's a Chicago Southside accent and I'll even buy into a more generic Chicago accent, but I had no friggin idea that there was such a thing as a west side Chicago suburban accent. And I have no idea what specifically my accent is. Although I do know that a mark of my Midwesterness is that I call Interstates and grade seperated Highways expressways instead of freeways.
Eric97123now live in Oregon
It ain't gone no where we say Or-e-gen and also, Washington is Washington, they know it is a state so you dont have to say Washington State...
I believe in my distant past I heard someone, a middle-aged American male, say "Warshingten." Was I hearing things, or if it is a pronunciation common to a population somewhere in the USA, from where was this person?
Eric97123 It ain't gone no where we say Or-e-gen and also, Washington is Washington, they know it is a state so you dont have to say Washington State...
I would think that someone from the Beautiful State of Washington, would want to make certain,
and crystal clear, they were NOT from Washington, D.C. [2c]
Possibly, Eleanor Roosevelt is still foggy?
selector I believe in my distant past I heard someone, a middle-aged American male, say "Warshingten." Was I hearing things, or if it is a pronunciation common to a population somewhere in the USA, from where was this person? -Crandell
In Conway Arkansas, on the Arkansas River, is Toad Suc Park. A local told me it was a French derivation of Sugar Shack. Another local told me that river captains would go to a bar and suck on a bottle until they swelled up like toads. They have a Toad Suck festival every year.
Paul_D_North_JrA few years ago I heard a late-night radio show - maybe Jim Bohannon ? - when he had on a linguist from a major northeastern university - I forget which one. Anyway, he said that by listening to a person pronounce a few key words, or name what they were being shown in a picture - "crick" vs. "creek", "soda" vs. "pop", etc. - he could figure out where someone was from to within 25 to 50 miles or so on the East Coast and built-up areas east of the Mississippi, and within 100 miles or so in the western US. Of course, us itinerant Americans wandering and moving around every couple of years and hybridizing and mongrelizing the accents and inflections and idioms, etc. would make that more difficult, I suppose. - Paul North.
I am, also, amused by "you" vs. "yous" vs. "y'all."
Reading over what I just wrote, is it far-ther or fur-ther?
James
The Butler Paul_D_North_JrA few years ago I heard a late-night radio show - maybe Jim Bohannon ? - when he had on a linguist from a major northeastern university - I forget which one. Anyway, he said that by listening to a person pronounce a few key words, or name what they were being shown in a picture - "crick" vs. "creek", "soda" vs. "pop", etc. - he could figure out where someone was from to within 25 to 50 miles or so on the East Coast and built-up areas east of the Mississippi, and within 100 miles or so in the western US. Of course, us itinerant Americans wandering and moving around every couple of years and hybridizing and mongrelizing the accents and inflections and idioms, etc. would make that more difficult, I suppose. - Paul North. The "soda" vs. "pop" is taken a step farther where I live. Here it is so-da vs. so-dee. I am, also, amused by "you" vs. "yous" vs. "y'all." Reading over what I just wrote, is it far-ther or fur-ther?
Of course you can be in the metropolitan Boston area where "soda" becomes "tonic".
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