The fact that Kansas and Arkansas aren’t pronounced anywhere close to each other still bothers me.
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j4k3@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoLafayette Georgia is “luh-FAY-et” and Madrid Alabama is “MAD-rid” because stupidity is standard practice where I’m from.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Eh, frequently the second to last syllable has emphasis in English, and those are local names, so they probably should be pronounced as a local would. Madrid, Alabama is a different place than Madrid, Spain, so it’s reasonable for it to have a different pronunciation. Likewise for Lafayette.
Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
These are all perfectly pronounceable when I speak like Arthur Morgan.
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Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Not sure I understand the Madrid one, the way you spelled out the phonetics would lead me to pronounce it the correct way (to my European ears, talking about the OG Madrid).
j4k3@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4H4Lv1x2Qk
Random news broadcast has it pronounced in the first 30 seconds
loutr@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yep that’s pretty close to the Spanish pronunciation, except for the rolled R of course.
In French Lafayette is pronounced la-fa-yet, with flat As like in “cat”.
I’m french so take the first one with a grain of salt.
j4k3@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In American English, Madrid Spain is like Mu-drid. Madrid Alabama is like Mad 'rd. It is like being Mad or angry. I didn’t see anyone pronouncing it like a local. These are places with a thick annoying southern accent. So it is typically said in a very annoying way with the emphasis strongly in the wrong place.
With Lafayette it is as annoying as possible like Lu as in Luck, FAY as in FAke, at as in hat. All three are like separate word syllables they are so disconnected in a southern redneck American draw.