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.
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.)
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.
Kate P's in Nashville, too. With her FEE-ahn-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.
Hah! I was just contemplating this and had decided to refrain.
I think Cheviot would be something like "chev-yo" in French
And then Amy did my work for me.
Thanks for picking up the slack while I was walking to work!