Another burning question

[FingahPickah]

Ok say "Oregon"

Or' i gun or Or' ah gone

[Neil K Walk]

It's all in how you speak. What difference does it make?

FWIW I have a friend from West Virginia who pronounces "color" (or "colour" for those here who speak the Queen's English) as "collar." I also have a friend from the Philadelphia suburbs who pronounces "water" as "WOOT uhr" so it's all geographic, heyna? (northeast Pennsylvanian for "isn't it?")

[rokdog49]

Clevelander ….Browns
Pittsburgh-ese …Bronze

[TomB'sox]

Originally Posted by dirkronk

+1.

But then, I do live in San Antonio (60+% of the population here is Hispanic surname), and we tend toward traditional Spanish pronunciation. Gets me in trouble sometimes. I was in Houston years back, looking for an address on San Felipe...a major street there. I asked someone where I could find San feh-LEE-pay and got a blank stare, then a question: "Oh...do you mean San FILLUP-ee?"

Everyplace has its own quirks when it comes to pronouncing names.


Dirk

Not to mention the German influence here also....Gruene is not Gru-en it is Green. Borne is not Born, but Bernie, Blanco is not a short "A", but a long one Blainco...and get north of town and I swear it ain't a street unless the word Oak is in it somewhere. LOL

[Chipotle]

Originally Posted by dirkronk

OK, I got antsy and asked the Google machine. So it’s BYEW-na Vista, eh? (Or BYOO-na Vista.) Really?

Really.

[J Patrick]

Originally Posted by FingahPickah

Ok say "Oregon"

Or' i gun or Or' ah gone

….neither really….it’s usually Ore’-uh-gun….….my dad always called it ore-ee-gone…..we don’t say I it like that either here in Oregon….

[FingahPickah]

Originally Posted by J Patrick

….neither really….it’s usually Ore’-uh-gun….….my dad always called it ore-ee-gone…..we don’t say I it like that either here in Oregon….

Haha ! Good point.

Common New England phonetics (where "OR" is pronounced "AW") really should have been AW' ruh gun or AW' ruh gone.

[Jim Owen]

According to a cosmic rule, the number of consonants in the universe must remain the same. Hence, when a Bostonian pahks his cah, a North Carolinian warshes his car.

[fumei]

Originally Posted by dirkronk

So how DO Coloradans pronounce it? Tell you what, I’ll share a Texas pronunciation secret as a fair trade: if you’re traveling in east Texas and see Palestine, do NOT pronounce it like the Middle East country (palesTINE)…say palesTEEN. Otherwise you’ll be knocked off as a furriner.
😉

Dirk

I got the same reaction when I was in Madras, Oregon. When I said it as the Indians do (re: Madras, India), as I lived in Madras (India) for a long time, I was very strongly corrected...by someone who did not even know there is Madras India. Shrug. Whatever. I am of the opinion that locals can pronounce things as they like.

Just like the guy who said it was the way they pronounced it, right here in the U_knitted States. Seriously. "knitted" as in the perl one yadda yadda knitting. Who is the furriner now?

If you think local pronunciations rule (and who is going to argue?), try visiting Newfoundland. It is hard to think of it as English.

[rbock]

Originally Posted by J Patrick

Calla-rah-dough says the fellow who used to live there but now resides in Ore-uh-gun…

Born and raised, this is pretty much how I say it.

Definitely not 'ColorODDo'.

[frankmcr]

re Post #1,

that's not "Color" as in "What's your favorite color?", it's "Color" as in "Colorado".