Kuh-No-Eh-Bulls.......KNOEBELS, huh?

Actually, I believe Versailes is ver-SIGH. But anyway, I still dont know the proper pronunciation for Geauga Lake. Using the handy-dandy phonetics I learned in elementary school leads me to "gee-OH-ga", but my former boss, who was from the Cleveland area always said "jah-gah".

lata, jeremy

--who notes that the correct pronunciation of soda is "POP"

jeremy, actually, that's how Versailles *should* be pronounced, but here in Ohio it's ver-SAILS. My point was that almost all Ohio towns named after world cities pronounce them incorrectly...

I've always said jee-AH-guh. Not that you have to worry about it anymore, unless you're going to Geauga County...

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In Georgia they don't have that problem Den....Athens, and Rome, are hard to mispronounce....;)

That being said, the state itself is often pronounced Jaw-ja...go Dawgs...;)
*** This post was edited by rollergator 7/25/2003 12:00:52 PM ***

2Hostyl - you sure your boss wasn't from Pittsburgh? Yinz wanna go dahn ta dat dere jaga lake n'at tahmarah?

Western PA is ver-SAILS too and it annoys the hell out of me, being a french student in high school ;)

And I love torturing people from LAN-kas-ter by mispronouncing the name of their hometown, lan-KAS-ter ;)

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Hmm, and around the Columbus area, most people say "KLUM-bus," or for suburb New Albany, "NOB-a-nee."

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I'm pretty sure it's ka no bulls. I live 30 miles from the place, and I see commercials and hear them on the radio all the time. Believe me on this.

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How 'bout in Showgirls...when Jesse Spano calls her Versace dress a ver-sayse instead of a ver-sach-ay? Funny. ;)

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*** This post was edited by dawnmarie313 7/25/2003 12:31:19 PM ***

In jaw-jah there is a town that they pronounce as La-fay-et when everywhere else it is La-fee-aht.

I always pronounced Geauga Lake: Gwah-guh
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G-Ah-ga Lake is how I have always heard it pronounced. I live about an hour away from there.

Isn't it GEE-AW-GAH? When you say it fast it sounds just like G-AH-GA. I'm just confusing myself...

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I dont remember when I heard it but last year when I heard an ad for the Geagua County Fair, to me it sounded like G-Ah-ga no aw sound. Who knows!

Definitely a soft G.... jee-AH-ga.

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2Hostyl said:
Actually, I believe Versailes is ver-SIGH. But anyway, I still dont know the proper pronunciation for Geauga Lake.

--who notes that the correct pronunciation of soda is "POP"

Jeremy, It's Gee-ah-ga. I am also one who always calls it POP, although where I come from everything is Coke. "What kind of Coke you want, sir?" "Um... how about a Sprite?" ;)

My little story about French words spoken way wrong: I was living in Charleston (the second capital of French words after anything in Louisiana;)), and every morning at 4am took a taxi to work. Every day, I'd call in and say "yes....5150 Marseilles please," and they'd always have a problem figuring out where it was, so I'd have to dumb down. Somehow, though, they'd get it right before I changed the pronunciation, and they'd respond.. "OH. 5150 Mar-sell-us!" No matter what I did, or tried to explain that they were wrong, they just couldn't get it in their heads.... so, to this day, it's Mar-sell-us. Those silly French words just get 'em every time.

Hell, I still have a hard time saying Neaderthal.
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Er, isn't it Neanderthal? No wonder you can't say it! ;)

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Canobie Lake Amusement Park is one I can never get right.

Is it can-o-bee? cuh-know-bee?

And I used to pronounce Whalom as "wall-um" until I heard the tagline "Have a whale of a time at Whalom" and realized I was wrong.

mOOSH

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Just another stupid miss-pronunciation of a French name happened in St. Louis during the great flood of 1993. I remember a national news reporter reporting on the River Des Peres and the damage that was being caused along its swollen banks. She called is River Dess Perez, when it is actually pronounced River Da Pear locally.

But don't get me started on those darned Oregonians and their pronunciation.

And just to throw this post on topic, I heard several people local to Columbus call it Why-an-dote.

Hmph... just like the people who live in Cincinnati say "Cincinnatuh" and the people who live in Louisville say "Lullvill."

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Den said:

Cuyahoga: KY-a-HOAG-uh

Maybe to you Columbsites, but Clevelanders call it KY-uh-HOG-uh. I worked for the County for 11 years.

*** This post was edited by Jeffrey Seifert 7/25/2003 3:51:23 PM ***

Yeah Jeffreyis right, its Ky Uh Hog Uh if you actually live around the river/county.

You know the sad thing though, just after seeing all these posts and everything, and realizing how I thought it was "No Bulls...."

Once you get some type of word in your head, and you pronounce it a certain way.....even if its wrong or not, it seems like no matter what the real pronunciation is......youll always call it what you always have, just because you get accustomed to saying it that way....

Everytime I say Knoebels now, I still always just say "No Bulls" even though in the back of my head I know its definately wrong....sometimes I might correct myself and say "K'No Bulls," but most times it just feels "right" to me. I guess its sort of sad in its own way.
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