On 8/9/2020 3:29 PM, T wrote:
On 2020-08-09 15:08, micky wrote:
Yosumight.

Someone wrote that actually that pronounced name dates back to the early
1940's when the last of the Dixie Class Destroyer Tenders were built.
The last of the 5 ships was the USS Yosemite AD-19. The commissioning
crew used that pronunciation as a joke and it stuck. I myself was
stationed on the USS Dixie AD-14.

So after trump mispronounced it, they probably assigned 3 people to find
some basis for his mistake, and if they came across this, they'd claim
trump had known about it andÂ* was honoring the crew of the destroyer for
saying it that way .

Trump can be forgiven for mispronouncing Yosemite.Â* He
is from New York.Â* He had trouble pronouncing HUGE, which
he pronounces YUGE.Â* At least he pronounces Nevada
correctly.

Not according to every reference I could find.

"It is pronounced, phonetically, Nev-AD-A. "