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.
Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.
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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.
Jesse - Apr 30, 2010 6:48:33 am PDT #26460 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dana - Apr 30, 2010 6:50:22 am PDT #26461 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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.
Steph L. - Apr 30, 2010 6:50:53 am PDT #26462 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
Steph L. - Apr 30, 2010 6:51:33 am PDT #26463 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
flea - Apr 30, 2010 6:54:25 am PDT #26464 of 30001
information libertarian
I hope we can agree the Du Bois bookstore is pronounced "Dew Boys."
Amy - Apr 30, 2010 6:55:31 am PDT #26465 of 30001
Because books.
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.
Jesse - Apr 30, 2010 6:57:28 am PDT #26466 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nuh-VAH-duh. It's the flat A vs. AH.
Connie Neil - Apr 30, 2010 6:58:54 am PDT #26467 of 30001
brillig
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.
Steph L. - Apr 30, 2010 7:13:22 am PDT #26468 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I hope we can agree the Du Bois bookstore is pronounced "Dew Boys."
Absolutely! (After all, I live in a state with a town named Versailles, pronounced Ver-SALES.)
Cashmere - Apr 30, 2010 7:13:52 am PDT #26469 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
My nephew has decided to go to college at ETSU and follow his Bluegrass music dream. I don't suppose anyone here is anywhere near Johnson City, TN?
tiggy's in Nashville. I also have a friend from high school living in Nashville--her husband is in the industry.