Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?
On Sunday 20 October 2002 09:51 pm, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:57:37AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > > Actually, if we're getting really specific, the natives call
> > > "or-eh-gun" home.
> >
> > My point exactly. This is why anyone actually from Oregon shouldn't be
> > insulting others' pronunciations, because they can't even pronounce the
> > name of their state correctly themselves. :b
>
> Actually, "or-eh-gun" is the correct pronounciation. We're not the
> only locale with a pronounciation different than you would think from
> the spelling: Quebec is pronounced "kay-beck," Couch Street in
> Portland is "Kooch," Yachats, OR is pronounced "Ya-hots, or-eh-gun."
>
> I'm sure it annoys the Quebecois that hardly anybody outside thier
> province knows how to say thier name, similarly, Oregonians get
> annoyed that people somehow forgot how to say our state's name from
> school and don't understand why people outside of Oregon, Idaho,
> Alaska, Washington, Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Alberta and
> part of Montana have no grasp whatsoever on how to pronounce local
> names, especially the name of our state. It's not *that* hard.
it all sounds like an arkansanian conspiracy, if you spend too much time
thinking about it.
ben
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