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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
With all this pronounciation discussion, I'm surprised nobody has pointed out that there's no such place as New Or-LEENZ. Or-LEENZ Parish, yes. But the city is New OR-lunz, New (or N') AW-lunz, or (for the old school) New OR-lee-unz.
Oh, and I also have only ever heard WAW-keh-shaw for the town where I had my first job.
I'm surprised nobody has pointed out that there's no such place as New Or-LEENZ.
It's a pretty useful Yankee detector.
Scola, you need to make a camouflage cubicle curtain with an empty chair.
That is so awesome.
Somehow, even after I lived there for four years, no one in my family can pronounce New Orleans properly. They all either say New Or-LEENZ or a clearly-jokey N'Awlins. I don't know what's so difficult about New OR-linz, but none of them can remember it.
Interesting article about the downtown Houston tunnel system: [link]
Hey, Dana, I might be in Houston for work in October, FYI.
Oooh!
Please tell me everyone knows how to pronounce Mojave. As in, three syllables, not two, Mo-HA-ve, not MO-jayve. I knew how to pronounce that before I moved out West, but I've heard many an Easterner use the MO-jayve pronounciation.
MO-jayve
boggles
The whatnow?
I wonder if they're related to the actual Illinoisans who insist on pronouncing the "s" at and end of the state's name and have you heard how Goethe, Paulina and Devon are pronounced in Chicago?