Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I think the closest Buffista to Johnson City, TN is probably Emily (isn't she near Blackburg?)
As someone whose parent attended Mariemont High School and lived there until yesterday (they just moved out to Oxford, "downsizing" to a house that is technically bigger, whatever). Steph you are saying it all wrong! Definitely MARY-mont. Are you from the West Side or something? Do we need to have a Cincinnati throwdown?
(My brother is a smart ass and pronounces Cheviot as faux-French: SHEV-wah.)
Who wouldn't?? You should hear me say Detroit.
::snerk::
I've recently noticed that people pronounce my new state in different ways. Call-a-RAD-o and Col-or-AH-doe. Strange.
That's like the nuh-VAD-a that people in NV apparently say.
I will wait for megan to arrive and point out that "Cheviot" would not be pronounced that way in actual French. Faux-French may have different rules.
As someone whose parent attended Mariemont High School and lived there until yesterday (they just moved out to Oxford, "downsizing" to a house that is technically bigger, whatever). Steph you are saying it all wrong! Definitely MARY-mont. Are you from the West Side or something? Do we need to have a Cincinnati throwdown?
Ahahahaha!!! I grew up way out in Clermont County, which -- at least in the 1970s -- does not qualify as "East Side." It was totally seen as rednecks back then. And for some reason, the way we pronounced things tended to follow West Side rules. Go figure. And then it just stuck.
I will wait for megan to arrive and point out that "Cheviot" would not be pronounced that way in actual French. Faux-French may have different rules.
Heh. That's why I said faux-French. It's just a deliberate goofy butchering of it.
I hope we can agree the Du Bois bookstore is pronounced "Dew Boys."
That's like the nuh-VAD-a that people in NV apparently say.
How else would you pronounce Nevada?
I think Cheviot would be something like "chev-yo" in French, but my teachers always said my accent was pretty faux-French, so.
Nuh-VAH-duh. It's the flat A vs. AH.
There is a town here in Utah called Eureka. Pronounced YUR-uh-ka.
And Hurricane is HER-uh-kun, slurred as much as possible to 2 syllables. I suspect the founders were related.