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There's a great website with sound files so you can hear all those weird Wisconsin names pronounced. In case you've ever wondered.
http://www.misspronouncer.com/
Anyone want to guess how "Oconomowoc" is pronounced, before checking it out on the site? It's kind of tricky, though. Soem of the examples given are the way the locals agree it should be pronounced, but they're not quite the way they're really spoken. For example, the site shows that "Two Rivers" is pronounced exactly the way you'd expect. But the locals say "T'rivers". And most people say "Muwoky" rather than "Mill-wau'-key".
For added fun, find some links to French names, and see if you can find any that are pronounced as the French settlers intended.
Too bad there aren't many Polish names there.
http://www.misspronouncer.com/
Anyone want to guess how "Oconomowoc" is pronounced, before checking it out on the site? It's kind of tricky, though. Soem of the examples given are the way the locals agree it should be pronounced, but they're not quite the way they're really spoken. For example, the site shows that "Two Rivers" is pronounced exactly the way you'd expect. But the locals say "T'rivers". And most people say "Muwoky" rather than "Mill-wau'-key".
For added fun, find some links to French names, and see if you can find any that are pronounced as the French settlers intended.
Too bad there aren't many Polish names there.
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Date: 2006-07-18 03:48 am (UTC)From:I've always been amazed at how the french names of things get mangled. And regular every day words.
Pillow is pellow and milk, melk.
And what the hell is a front room anyway?
It's pronounced here as "fronchr'm"
Fond Du Lac comes out Fongulac.
I could go on and on and to save you that horror, I'll try and see if I can't get your link to work.
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Date: 2006-07-18 03:56 am (UTC)From:Well, Ingana goda bed soon. ;-D
The site shoudn't be too bad, they're all, like, three-second files.
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Date: 2006-07-18 04:04 am (UTC)From:That's really good, aina hey?
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Date: 2006-07-18 04:07 am (UTC)From:Did you know that Fond Du Lac isn't french at all, it's an indian word that means "likes lac alot".
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Date: 2006-07-19 12:52 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2006-07-19 12:57 am (UTC)From:Don't blame me, I got that from one of our dispatchers.
Grafton's pretty easy!
Date: 2006-07-18 04:07 am (UTC)From:That one I knew, cause I know someone who grew up there.
I'm going to check out the site though, and maybe bookmark it, cause it sounds
*chipper sales voice* both fun and useful!
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Date: 2006-07-18 01:30 pm (UTC)From:I had a great time telling my friend SB from the east coast how to pronounce Oconomowoc. He was just so fascinated by a word w/so many Os. And so was I when I first say it.
Among other moments on pronounciation w/my friend, SB: "Hey, SB! How do you think they pronounce the name of the town 'Gotham'?" Go-tham. "How is the town 'Rio' pronounced out here?" Rye-o. "Mazomanie?" May-zoh-mainy.
Cooky Wisconsinites.
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Date: 2006-07-19 12:50 am (UTC)From:I'm a little surprised, now that I think about it, that Mazomanie isn't pronounced with the same emphasis as Menominee. Mah-ZAH-muh-nee. But no, I didn't know there was a different way to say that one.
I'm not sure I've ever heard of Go-tham. Or Goth-am. It's really Go-tham? How weird.
Go-tham
Date: 2006-07-19 04:04 am (UTC)From:Yeah, I originally pronounced Mazomanie the way you did, and the way I think it should probably be pronounced. Somebody must have named the town and the first settlers had maybe just read the word before coming out there.
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