On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:45:41 -0700, Fred Abse
wrote:
On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:47:41 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:26:11 -0700, Fred Abse
wrote:
How 'bout "Coeur d'Alene"
Thanks pure French, so no problem.
I've heard "Curdylene".
I've heard "Boise" pronounced the French way :-)
Well, it is Idaho ;-)
My father declared one time (in Idaho, ~1956), "I knew God made a lot
of stupid people, but I didn't know he put them all in one place" ;-)
(They were paving a two-lane road, both lanes at the same time, so
highway was shut down completely for many hours.)
Canyon de Chelly == "Canyon duh Shay"
Hauppauge, and Poughkeepsie cause problems for some.
One of my favorites is "Hamtramck".
Another fun one is listening to "newscasters" trying to pronounce
"Blagojevich".
I'm somewhat into languages and pronunciations, so I bug my wife by
proclaiming, "It's pronounced just like it's spelled" :-)
...Jim Thompson
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