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and I thought the butchering of French in the Midwest was bad...
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PJ88 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 3:31 pm and I thought the butchering of French in the Midwest was bad...
Don't get me started on Dubois, WY. Doo-boyce :shock:
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spoony wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 3:29 pm How does Worcester, Mass become "wu·str" or Bexar County, Texas become "bear"?
oh yea I used to live in that region and never understood but just thought that gmaps didn't know how to pronounce it correctly
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greenonion wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 3:34 pm
PJ88 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 3:31 pm and I thought the butchering of French in the Midwest was bad...
Don't get me started on Dubois, WY. Doo-boyce :shock:
Just like Des Plaines, IL. Dez Planez. #-o
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spoony wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 3:29 pm
How does Worcester, Mass become "wu·str" ?
that's the standard British pronunciation for towns with the suffix 'cester'. similarly, Leicester is pronounced "Lester".
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shelly+ wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:10 pm
spoony wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 3:29 pm
How does Worcester, Mass become "wu·str" ?
that's the standard British pronunciation for towns with the suffix 'cester'. similarly, Leicester is pronounced "Lester".
Right, but its still missing an "r" (should be "wor·ster") and how did the Brits get there?
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spoony wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:30 pm
Right, but its still missing an "r" (should be "wor·ster") and how did the Brits get there?
lol the English don't pronounce R. Worcester is an English town near Birmingham in the midlands.
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Why not pronounce them the way locals prefer? People don't seem to take issue with anglicized pronounciations of Los Angeles, Salida, or Limon. Why not Buena Vista? And it's kind of funny that people want to go Spanish on Buena, but Vista stays English. Full disclosure - I live in Byoona Vista.
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shelly+ wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:10 pm
spoony wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 3:29 pm
How does Worcester, Mass become "wu·str" ?
that's the standard British pronunciation for towns with the suffix 'cester'. similarly, Leicester is pronounced "Lester".
Honest question, why is "Manchesta" different? (I heard that they are Mancunians because "Manchurian" was already taken.)
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cedica wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:49 pm
Honest question, why is "Manchesta" different? (I heard that they are Mancunians because "Manchurian" was already taken.)
because people use language unpredictably. the suffixes 'chester' and 'cester' are derived from latin, and any town with one of these suffixes would have been a Roman settlement. mancunian refers to the local dialect.... which is utterly incomprehensible. lol
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johnt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:44 pm Why not pronounce them the way locals prefer? People don't seem to take issue with anglicized pronounciations of Los Angeles, Salida, or Limon. Why not Buena Vista? And it's kind of funny that people want to go Spanish on Buena, but Vista stays English. Full disclosure - I live in Byoona Vista.
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The two pronunciations that I'm never sure of are Guyot and Boreas.
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4thPlaceAtFieldDay wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 5:04 pm The two pronunciations that I'm never sure of are Guyot and Boreas.
i've always said: "Goo-Yo" and "Bore-ee-ess"

didn't know those were up for debate
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