I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

YramAL

Garden Gumby-What about Sequim?(Squim)  Or Spokane?(Spo-kan:long O, short a) Now that the Gonzaga basketball team is doing so well, get ready for sportscasters to mess Spokane up.

Or how about this one-Natchitoches, Louisiana. I don't even know how to pronounce that one, but I know it's nothing like it looks.

Mary

lassie11

and foyer which ought not to be pronounced the way it is spelled.

Chickadee

I challenge any non Texan to pronounce Gruene, Tx! Really threw me.

pupmom

HL, that's a new one for me! Maybe it's a Midwest thing. 

Chickadee

It's nak a tesh, LA. Sister city is Nacogdoches, Tx. Nak a dotch iss

crazy4carrots

Chick, don't leave us in suspenders!  How DO you pronounce Gruene?

BTW, my Ohioan uncle always pronounced it Cincinnatuh too, and the best man at our wedding was from Missouruh!

De rien = it's nothing, don't mention it!

QuinnCat

"It's nothing" a lot like "no problem" hey?

We have pet names for the yocal local towns around here....Dunsmuir >> Dunsmanure  Redding >> Dredding.  Weed, well says it all.

Wabbit

yorkie ... I grew up in Missouri and we pronounce it MissourE.  Misery for short

pupmom

Lol, Wabbit! 

Wabbit

Meanwhile in Indiana it is cold and windy and we are going to drop to the teens tonight.  My niece just posted that the Lake of the Ozarks area has a forecast of up to 8 inches of snow coming their way. 

So much for Spring ...

bluedahlia

I love being called an EYEtalian!

Momine

Blue, that is like when good old boys talk about AYrabs.

Anonymous

HappyLibby~~I had to jump in on the word game. My beloved Aunt June who lived with me the last 3 years of her life ( she died in June at age 86) always said Cincinnatuh. When I told her the correct pronunciation, she said, "I've never heard of such a thing." She also called Ohio OHIA.



Blue~~When my DH orders salad, he asks for Eyetalian dressing. He also calls Toyota, Tyota...drives me crazy.



Paula

QuinnCat

Blue - my second mom was EYEtalian.  Why did she say pestew instead of pestO?  Why did she say fugassa bread instead of foccacia bread?  She was Genoese, via San Francisco.

gardengumby

It's not just place names... who knows what a geoduck is or how to pronounce it? Hint: it's not a bird, and it's really hard work to get.

Chickadee

Sorry had to go out. Gruene is pronounced Green. Who woulda thunk?

Wabbit

Hope you are feeling better Chickadee?

Chickadee

Much better thank you. Saw neurologist this a.m. As follow up for headache complaint. The headache disappeared with the swollen lymph node! He agreed it probably contributed.

crazy4carrots

Aha -- geoducks (pronounced "gooey ducks") are big, big clams.  British Columbia boasts about them!

gardengumby

And they are delicious!!

CherrylH

Youse guys are nutz!

Wabbit

Hi bartender! 

Nobody would believe me if I told them what kind of things I've learned on this breast cancer board. 

pupmom

Is Cherry the bartend? A girl needs to know these things! 

IllinoisLady

Ok....being from Illinois I'll give you one, though there are a whole lot here......not far from me is a little place which is the home of Rend Lake College.  I studied there for my real estate license.  The first time my brother-in-law saw a sign he wanted to know more about the little town he called In - Ah.  The name of the town is Ina. I-na  I think I laughed for the next hour and he was none too happy since he takes great pride in his intelligence.

Another one that many people miss is Cairo.  It is pronounced Care-o. 

Jackie

IllinoisLady

I probably will get the dreaded marks and I'm sure this ground was covered before but I enjoyed reading it:

DON'T CRY FOR THE GOP, REINCE PRIEBUS

If you paid attention to the 2012 election—at all—you probably have some idea of why Republicans lost. Their presidential primaries showcased the right-wing insanity of their base. Their candidate, Mitt Romney, couldn’t hide his contempt for ordinary people. Their policies were clear attempts to game the system for the wealthy, with massive tax cuts and sharp reductions in spending for the rest of America. Above all, they couldn’t provide a decent reason for jettisoning a president who—among other things—was presiding over a modest recovery from the worst economic disaster to hit the country since the Great Depression, a disaster exacerbated by the previous, Republican administration.

None of this is hard to understand, but somehow, it has flown over the head of the man Republicans pay to understand national politics—Reince Priebus, head of the Republican National Committee. When asked on MSNBC this afternoon whether or not the party is changing, he replied by offering a quick list of issues of where the public, apparently, agrees with the GOP:

“We’re not losing the issues on the math. We’re not losing the issues on spending, and debt, and jobs, and the economy. Those are total winners for us. What we found in the election is that while we’re winning those arguments on spending and math, we’re losing this sort of emotional, cultural vote out there in presidential elections.”

If any of this were true—literally if any of it were true—Republicans wouldn’t have lost the White House and suffered setbacks in the House and Senate. Even if Mitt Romney was disliked by much of the public, the party would have made gains somewhere. It didn’t, and that’s a sign the Republican brand has taken a terrible hit for its positions and views.

As for this idea that President Obama won reelection because of a cultural affinity with the public, and not his views and performance? The fact of the matter is that the Obama coalition—minorities, young voters, and professional whites—broadly agrees with the president on core issues of the economy, the role of government and social equality. In other words, Republicans lost these voters because of the issues—not because they couldn’t make strong emotional appeals.

So far, the GOP reform agenda consists of supporting immigration reform and avoiding outright displays of sexism or bigotry. Which, you know, good for them. But if Republicans want to reenter American politics as a governing party—one that earns trust from a majority of the public—then they need to adjust their positions to meet the actual needs of ordinary people. With his refusal to honestly grapple with the reason for Republican failure last year, Priebus isn’t helping.

Jackie

CherrylH

Yes, Yorkie, I'm the bartender. What can I get for you tonight?

pupmom

Well, since I found out today that my bone and CT scans were NED, I'll have a glass of the bubbly! Already had one with DH, but who's counting, hick! 

Chickadee

IL, my mom is from Reidland, Ky and she told us it was Kay-Ro

1Athena1

The best mispronunciation HAS to belong to the lead male character in "My Cousin Vinny" an Italian New Yorker defending a muder suspect in the Deep South, who refers to "youths" "yoots." The southern judge corrects him and says the word is pronounced "yewwwds."

"Nu-cu-lar" also drives me up a wall.

(And finally, a propos of something completely unrelated to this thread, some people are really rude. They need a new 'tude!)

Chickadee

I almost got whacked on the hand when asked in my early school how "I" pronounced ambulance.



In my most sincere voice I said, "Well I pronounce it am-ba-lance". Sister didnt think that was funny.



My family laughed at me for sometime when I said An-ti-cue, for antique. I was mad at them for awhile for letting me do it everywhere. They thought it was cute. Ugh!



Needless to say Phonics and lots of practice helped get right with the world.