On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:51:05PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > According to whom? There are also several cities in the states that are > named Oregon, and AFAIK, they all pronounce it "or-eh-gon." You guys > are the weird ones. Well, Oregon hasn't "gon" anywhere. I've noticed this pronounciation tends to be a rural one, usually heard in areas with high counts of Texan or otherwise midwestern imports. They're wrong. Go someplace closer to Oregon City and Champoeg (shampoo-egg), two of the oldest cities in the state (or for that matter, anywhere else in the Willamette (Will-am-it, not William-ette) Valley). > > We're not the only locale with a pronounciation different than you > > would think from the spelling: Quebec is pronounced "kay-beck," > > Bah, that's not relevant. The pronunciation of Quebec is phonetically > correct in its native language. Yes, this is true, though some western Canadians (sometimes deliberately to thumb thier nose at the French) pronounce it kwa-beck. Americans almost never pronounce it correctly. > Hey, this thread is almost coming around full-circle, because the > pronunciation of "Debian" doesn't really match its spelling either. > Maybe this thread will even become on-topic again. Well, actually, even before I knew the entemology and pronounciation, I was pronouncing it the right way. Debian's phonetic. -- Baloo
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