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I'm sure there are a million examples of words that people pronounce differently. (Do you pronounce the 's' at the end of Illinois?, Missouree or Missourah, etc.)

But I'm gonna start with one that I wonder if I'm weird cause I hear people pronounce it one way and I think its just wrong:

Topo

While technically not a word, it is the name of a software package, and is frequently pronounced as an abbreviation.

I think its "top-oh" (rhymes with mop, flop, hop). I hear others pronounce it with a long-o: "tow-poh" (taupe-oh?). It drives me crazy.

Of course, I derive this from the original "topographic" which the initial o is pronounced "ah" versus "oh". (At least according to Dictionary.com)

Any thoughts on Topo, or other words that Dubya might have misunderpronuncicated?

And I'm actually Lizard Bath.

te-wa wrote:just as it seems to me to sound like "tay-wah" but the "t" is kinda dull, like a t+d together.

Is that how it's pronounced in Tewa? I don't think I'd know if it I heard it.

there is a similarity between Cherokee and Te-wa language. (just as there is w/ navajo/apache/inuit)
Te-wa being a tribe and language right here in AZ. However, the Cherokee word is not a reference to the people or their cultural and linguistic similarites/differences, it simply means "flying squirrel".

te-wa wrote:it simply means "flying squirrel".

Rocky is so much easier !

te-wa wrote:there is a similarity between Cherokee and Te-wa language.

Ooh, that's my extremely interesting fact of the day.
I knew that it wasn't an Uto-Aztecan language, but I didn't know what it was related to. One of the books I'm reading discusses possible links from the Southwest to the Mississippian cultures.

i wondered now te-wa language had any similarity to cherokee or other midwest? tribes.. please tell what you find. and for colonel sanders' sake.. prounounce it right!

te-wa wrote:the true pronunciation of te-wa is just between you and me.. so dont go tellin' everybody. its "terd wad"

I knew we were related..

Tewa is a Kiowa-Tanoan language spoken by some of the New Mexico pueblos...Santa Clara, Pojoaque, Nambe, Tesuque and the non Hopi group at First Mesa Hano. The group at Hopi were a major part of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, which caused them to go to the Hopi for protection. The Hopis allowed them to stay so they could help protect them from the Paiutes and Navajos.
To this day the village of Hano wants to become a separate entity, much to the happiness of some Hopis.
To some of the Hopis they are still considered to be foreigners.

Ima gonna say "down yonder".......that will simplify everything for me No need to wonder about pronunciation

Trish

In Flag I've noticed everyone pronounces "Switzer" Canyon with a long "i," whereas, from its spelling, I would think it was a short "i." Makes me wonder if the original family pronounced it that way or not.

Oh, and people say Riordan as "Ree OR den" whereas I know for a fact that the original AZ family said, and still says, "Rearden." My son has a friend whose last name is Riordan, a descendant of the original pioneer family, and that's where I got that tidbit of trivia.

In Scotland it is rye-or-dan ...

Anybody know the official way to say Tuthill? As in the Fort-Park in Flagstaff.

toot-hill?
tuht-hill?
tooth-uhl?
tuttle?

Hmm... I think the locals say something close to "tuttle."

Your second choice. tuht-hill

Outdoor Lover wrote:Your second choice. tuht-hill

Are you sure? I always did say tuht-hill, but I am thinking when I lived in Flag that I heard people saying "tuttle."

I'll ask my daughter. She still lives in Flag.

I tend to like to go with local pronunciations. Usually, but not always. It nearly drove me nuts when I lived in Tucson to hear most people saying the street name "La Can AH da" instead of the proper pronunciation of "La Can YAH da." It is spelled correctly on the street signs, with the tilde: La Cañada.

What can I say? I am easily driven nuts?

OK, I talked to my daughter. She said, "I say Tuht-hill, but a lot of people just say "Tuttle."

I listen to KAFF Country 92.9 and I'm pretty sure they say Fort TUHT-hill - accent on the Tuht with an almost imperceptible "h: on the hill part. almost like TUHT-ill. If you can't trust KAFF Country, who can you trust So who you going to believe - me or your ears.

Al_HikesAZ wrote:I listen to KAFF Country 92.9 and I'm pretty sure they say Fort TUHT-hill - accent on the Tuht with an almost imperceptible "h: on the hill part. almost like TUHT-ill. If you can't trust KAFF Country, who can you trust So who you going to believe - me or your ears.

I would agree that it is Fort TUHT-hill, as least that's the way I say it. Anyone from Lawng-Island might have a ball with this one and call it FAWT tuttle......thankfully there's not too many "r's" to be lost in it.

;)

Al_HikesAZ wrote:
But OORAH is my native tongue.

hey AL, SEMPER FI , I wasn't there, but I care!

Just looking at the weather thread, I noticed that the word "flood" looks very strange. Why isn't it spelled flud? Like mud? Flood seems like it should be pronounced like food or mood. But not good or stood.

And I don't know why more people don't correctly pronounce baseline. It rhymes with vaseline.
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chumley wrote:Just looking at the weather thread, I noticed that the word "flood" looks very strange. Why isn't it spelled flud? Like mud? Flood seems like it should be pronounced like food or mood. But not good or stood.

And I don't know why more people don't correctly pronounce baseline. It rhymes with vaseline.
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Bro - you are WAY overthinking things for a Friday morning.....