I pronounce them "fo-yerrr" and "nitch" if it's a little tucked-away corner of a room, and "neesh" if it's a metaphorical place that one finds themselves in life.
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Kathy A - Oct 15, 2009 2:34:31 pm PDT #1171 of 3094
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Polter-Cow - Oct 15, 2009 2:34:52 pm PDT #1172 of 3094
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Heh. And Butterfly Boucher's last name rhymes with "sloucher."
Zenkitty - Oct 15, 2009 2:55:07 pm PDT #1173 of 3094
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Botetourt County pronounces its name body-tot. I tried pronouncing it as if it were French and no one knew what I meant.
Barb - Oct 15, 2009 3:49:40 pm PDT #1174 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
I call that Tennessee Syndrome, Zenkitty. Lafayette, TN is pronounced la-FAY-ett, Milan, TN is MY-lan, Cairo is KAY-row.
I'm betting there are others, but those are the ones I can recall off the top of my head.
dcp - Oct 15, 2009 3:58:40 pm PDT #1175 of 3094
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
In Colorado, Pueblo is pronounced "Pyu-eb-lo," and Buena Vista is "Byoona Vista," or just "Byoonie."
§ ita § - Oct 15, 2009 4:14:40 pm PDT #1176 of 3094
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Look at Europe on the map! It's so great to see people show up in this thread from all over, and to see the map fleshing out. Even if people don't want to speak up, they're appearing.
DavidS - Oct 15, 2009 4:20:10 pm PDT #1177 of 3094
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Although I did run into a lady a few months ago with the last name spelled "Boucher," who looked at me funny when I called her "Mrs. Booo-sheeaaee" and told me that her name is Mrs. Butcher, thank you very much.
Obviously not related to Joe Boucher, who posts here but uses your preferred pronunciation.
brenda m - Oct 15, 2009 4:51:38 pm PDT #1178 of 3094
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Cairo is KAY-row.
Illinois has one of those too.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 15, 2009 6:50:07 pm PDT #1179 of 3094
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Heh. And Butterfly Boucher's last name rhymes with "sloucher."
That's the one I've heard most often...that's wrong. Vonnie has the correct pronunciation, at least from a French-Canadian perspective.
The one that I've heard the bearers of give up on is "Fournier" which gets pronounced For-nee-or more than the correct For-nee-ay.
Hil R. - Oct 15, 2009 6:55:18 pm PDT #1180 of 3094
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The one that always confused freshmen at Tulane who were not from Louisiana was a building called Fortier, pronounced for-SHAY.