rain

Sheboygan (next county north) got nailed by a storm this afternoon. Power lines down and all. Manitowoc (north of Sheboygan) got hit later in the day (not so bad, though). It finally rained here, just a little while ago. Poured for ten or fifteen minutes.

On saturday it was 97 here. Yesterday it was 99. Today it hit 101°. When the front came through it dropped to 70.

Wisconsin pronunciation

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.