How would y'all say Sequim, Puyallup, or Tsawwassen?

*opens mouth*

*realizes would be cheating*

*closes mouth*

(To be fair, I don't know how to pronounce Tsawwassen. "tsaww-WAWW-sen" is probably what I'd try.)

And I still don't understand people who say "Missour-UH" and "Cincinnat-UH." There's a freaking I on the end of the names, people.

There's an S on the end of Illinois.

Okay, good point. But I'm just thinking -- are there words that end in "i" where it's meant to be pronounced "uh"? All I can think of are Italian entrees -- capellini, linguini, etc. -- and they aren't pronounced "uh."

That's largely my objection to it -- I don't hear it done to other words that end in "i", and so -- to me -- it doesn't make sense. YiMV.

Des Moines.

Yes, this. How does one pronounce it? Were one an ignorant unAmerican?

I live in a place called Dun Laoghaire. Have fun with that.

Of course, I was the annoying friendless pedantic second-grader who RAILED against my classmates' pronunciation of "PUH-sketti" and "crown" (for "crayon").

Ahhh, nothing like trying to win friends through pedantry and correction.

And I still don't understand people who say "Missour-UH" and "Cincinnat-UH." There's a freaking I on the end of the names, people.

Apparently old-timers used to be distinguished by calling Miami, "Miam-uh." Like old-time Angelenos used to pronounce Los Angeles with the hard "G."

I used to live on Guoin. Luckily I could just name the apartment complex for people. Never worked out how to pronounce my address.

Tchopatoulis. IJS.

I don't think that's spelled right.

Desplaines, Illinois. Pronounce the esses in the first one, but not the second one.

I don't think that's spelled right.

Tchoupatoulis, I think.

You guys are totally forgetting "colonel." Which sounds NOTHING like it's spelled. It is completely wrong, and the written and spoken parts of the word aren't even distantly related.

even if very few people clap at a slower rhythm, the whole group will adapt to that, eventually.

I wonder if this is because people's arms get tired, and you slow down clapping so that you can stop?

I am a fabulous dancer, white as milk, got great rhythm, AND I got back.

That's all I got to say on that subject.

I'm off to go sit with Robin.

The problem is not people saying Native American origin words like "Arkansas" and "Missouri" wrong, but that the people who first wrote them down using the English alphabet were apparently on some early form of crack.

Hee. This is making me giggle like crazy.

Tchopatoulis. IJS.

Tchoupatoulis. IJS.

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