Comment on Coming up with new names is hard

JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• variants@possumpat.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s no right way to pronounce french

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  • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wulle wu kuschee awek mwa?

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• DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fortier pronounced “Forty-er” as in “my fort is fortier than your fort”.

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• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ohio: Versailles (locally pronounced vur-sales)

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  • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Utah: Monticello (Italian, but locally pronounced “monta sell-oh”)

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    • TurtleTourParty@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Indiana pronounces their Monticello the same way

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  • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same in PA, but they get Duquesne right.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They pronounce it like its French but it turns out to be Spanish

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• GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I grew up near Calais, Barre, and Charlotte, and none of them are pronounced how you’d think.

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