November 26, 2003

Silly

This is just silly. They have nothing better to do than pick on the President because they say he pronounced "Nevada" wrong.

News flash! Until I read this article I never knew the "Ne-vah-da" pronunciation was wrong, and I've lived in a state right next to NV most of my life, and have spent plenty of time there besides. I've heard both pronunciations equally over the years, and I've even heard the "Ne-vah-da" form used by people THAT LIVE IN THE STATE! If the natives are using it, why on earth is the President using it such a freakin big deal?!?!?

Some reporters and politicians need to get an L I F E!

Okay, I feel better now.

It's like the yearly debate over the Salinas Rodeo, which is pronounced "Ro Day O" here, as opposed to "Ro Dee O"

And then there's the Paso Robles argument, which I'm not even going to try and illustrate.

Update: The BoiFromTroy and I seem to be in agreement on this one, along with Xrlq, and Robert.

Update Mark II: Lori chimes in.

Posted by Ithildin at November 26, 2003 2:22 PM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE

"they say he pronounced "Nevada" wrong."

Actually, it's worse than that; they said he "pronunced" it wrong. Right there in the headline, to boot.

Posted by: Xrlq at November 26, 2003 5:24 PM

I saw that on your post. Very funny!

Looks like they've fixed it though.

Posted by: Ith at November 26, 2003 6:11 PM

Apparently, they have two versions. Both have all the other errors I identified in my post ("pronounciation," "Nevambleda," etc.). If the rest of the errors go down, a screen shot goes up.

Posted by: Xrlq at November 26, 2003 7:46 PM

Shades of Orwell's 1984: language police trying to eliminate distinctive regional language patterns.

All in the pursuit of diversity, no doubt.

Posted by: Debbye at November 27, 2003 6:52 AM

Maybe next time they'll catch him pronouncing Berlin "brrr LIN" instead of "bear-lean," or pronouncing Paris like the first name of that Hilton bimbo instead of "pah-REE."

Posted by: Xrlq at November 27, 2003 11:12 AM

Love screenshots!

And let's not forget Tokyo! To Kee O, or To Kyo (not sure thta captures the actual sound, but hey!)

Posted by: Ith at November 27, 2003 1:23 PM

Er, uh, "Nevada" is a Spanish word and the President's pronounciation is correct.

Posted by: John Anderson at November 27, 2003 9:30 PM

And of course it needs to be pointed out that everyone in the US pronounces Zholeeyay, Illinois and Daytwah, Michigan wrong.

Posted by: triticale at December 1, 2003 8:04 AM

Actually, my favorite vulgarizations are the street names in New Orleans: Chartres = Charters, Fountainebleau = Fountain-blow, etc. The French stuff is fun enough, but where they really go nuts is with the Greek names of the Muses which are the cross streets in the Garden District: Melpomene = Mel-pah-mean, Terpsichore = Terps-uh-kor, Calliope = Cally-ope...although I think anyone actually pronouncing Clio as "C.L. ten" is a just a myth.

Posted by: Dave J at December 3, 2003 6:07 PM

hello,
I work for a broadcaster in australia and urgently need a correct pronunciation for paso robles. is it roh-bulls or roh-blez ???
please help
gillian

Posted by: gillian at December 22, 2003 2:43 PM

Roh'-blayz (the e makes a long a sound, the s sounds like z). Lots of places like CNN are doing it wrong right now.

Posted by: test at December 22, 2003 3:07 PM

Thanku. Our webster's dictionary has it as ROH-bulls which sounded a little strange, and our correspondent in the US is saying ROH-blez. So we were confused. Do you live there?

Posted by: gillian at December 22, 2003 4:07 PM

guys, if you have problems with pronouncing some cities and well, even English words I might be of help. I'm a trainer for formal American and even US Geography...I am also a trivia buff, so I might be of help with your not-so usual questions....hope I can be of help to anyone regarding their questions. Just email me and I'll try to help you out...

See ya peeps! :)

Posted by: clarence at February 24, 2004 7:35 PM