One of my favorite people on the planet is named Lara, with the two dots over the first A...you know? Dr. Zhivago's lover? Pronounced with a soft A like Lahra...but because she is from Boston, she introduced herself as Sara, but with an L (LOL)
She doesn't use the double dots anymore but I still pronounce it that way, mostly because I was so psyched I got the classic movie reference that her parents intended
I grew up in Texas. Both my parents had a Texas accent. But I went to college in Indiana and taught English in Texas, Washington State, Italy, and Alaska...........and thought I had better lose the accent to teach it right. So I did. My kids were all raised on the West Coast so they basically have no tell tale accent. They notice every little nuance that I thought I had lost though. I pronounce the number "ten" and a "tin" can the same. I can't fix that. I pronounce the name "Claude" and a "clod" of dirt the same. I did fix the "vacuum" to say both u's to prevent guffawing if I say "vac-yum". And there are a few others that my kids will announce when I do it. But I don't have a pronounced accent.
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“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Barry Goldwater
Growing up in Indiana, you can always spot the out-of-staters by the way they pronounce Terre Haute. For some reason outsiders tend to say "terra HUT", whereas no Hoosier will pronounce it any way but "terra HOTE" (rhymes with "note").
Back in the '70s, after being stationed in California for a number of years, I was visiting my mother back in Indianapolis, and I told her I was going to visit a town about 25 miles up I-465 - I said I was going to drive to "Carmel" (car-MEL) and she responded, "No you're not". Pause, me puzzled. "You're going to CAR-mul" she corrected.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
I don't know how closely it reflects reality, but in my favorite novel, Cormac McCarthy's 'All the Pretty Horses', which is set in the late '40s, whenever a Mexican says "Mexico" they are referring to Mexico City. They never seem to refer to the nation as a whole as "Mexico" but speak only of regions and provinces and of course the names of towns.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
I pronounce it Terre Halt!
I'm yo.
This my brother yo
We yo yo
To all the Tennessee folk- how do you prononce the name.
My wife is from Tennessee and her family prononces it TENasee. Knoxvllie they pronounce Knoxval.
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