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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This always drives me nuts about Fauquier County, VA. But we are forced to pronounce it the way they do.[/quote]

How do you think Fauquier is supposed to be pronounced?[/quote]

Fo-kee-ay. The proper French pronunciation. Not Faw-keer, like a hick. The residence hall at William and Mary uses the proper pronunciation. [/quote]

Incorrect. Fauquier was English, not French. He was a colonial governor, which is why that dorm is named after him.

I am old. I lived in the Botetourt Complex in the early 80s. People asked about the different pronunciation. And the story told to us was that they had been pronouncing it “Faw-keer” until some young male college students started answering the phones “F**k here.” So the school decided to change the pronunciation of the dorm name to avoid that.[/quote]

Actually his Dad was French. “ Fauquier was born in England. His father, Dr. John Francis Fauquier, a French Huguenot born in Clairac, Lot-&-Garonne France, relocated to Britain where he worked as a financial agent and deputy master of the mint, where he worked under Sir Isaac Newton. “[/quote]

Yes. So? You think people didn’t anglicize their names when they emigrated? And you think that perhaps people in Williamsburg didn’t know the actual pronunciations used by the colonial governors? They had to change the usual pronunciation of Fauquier not because it was wrong but because it had been turned into an obscenity. Pretty common knowledge around campus.[/quote]

No. You got taken for a ride.[/quote]

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