Pronunciation Puzzle
On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:39:57 -0500, flipper wrote:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:38:42 -0400, "Michael Robinson"
wrote:
"Jim Thompson" wrote in
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Pronunciation Puzzle...
Nevada
^----- where are people getting that what I'd call "harsh-A" sound?
"Nevada" would certainly, I'd think, have Spanish naming origin,
wouldn't you think?
...Jim Thompson
Wiktionary says Nevada comes from Spanish, "snow-covered," so I guess you're
right.
But there are places a-plenty that we Amurrikins don't pronounce correctly.
For example, Ausable Chasm in New York.
People pronounce it "ossa-bull" but it comes from the French Au Sable, which
means sandy and is pronounced Oh-Sobbla (sort of).
My mother said one of the funniest things she ever heard was a
northeastern news broadcaster trying to pronounce Nacogdoches.
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That's right up there with Mexia.
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JF
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