On 08/09/2020 09:36 PM, T wrote:
On 2020-08-09 16:56, Bob F wrote:
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 and was honoring the crew of the destroyer
for
saying it that way .

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

Not according to every reference I could find.

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

It is the politicians that come to our state and
tell us that Nev-odd-da is their favorite state.


Ne VAD ah works for me although just where the V hangs out is moot. For
me it sort of bridges the two syllables.