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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve lived in Ohio, where you think you know how to pronounce the name of a city because you’ve seen it before in another country, but nope, it’s pronounced totally differently by locals.

Lima is LYE muh 
Berlin is BUR lin
Russia is ROO she
Versailles is Ver SALES
Rio Grande is RYE oh grand
Cairo is CARE oh

I also attended a wedding in Bahama, NC, where it’s pronounced Buh HAY muh.

The correct pronunciation is however the locals say it.[/quote]

+1. I have posted this before but there is also Fauquier County, VA (Faw-keer) and Lord Fauquier and the dorm at W&M both of which are pronounced the French way - Fo-kee-ay. [/quote]

The dorm at William & Mary was originally pronounced "Faw-keer" but it was back in the day of shared corded payphone in the hallways. People would answer the phone with the name of the Botetourt Complex dorm. But the guys in "Faw-keer" would mispronounce that first syllable *just* a little bit. So they would be inviting people to "F**k-here." And thus the Fo-kee-ay pronunciation was adopted by the school. Given CW's strict adherence to pronunciations, most people think that the colonial governor's name was pronounced "Faw-keer" since that was the original pronunciation used by the school. The governor's father was Huguenot but may well have anglicized his name when he moved to England. I say that as someone descended from other French Huguenots who moved to the US and changed the spellings/pronunciations of their surnames.

And though I agree that the correct pronunciation is how locals say something, that means that Long Island is properly Lawn-Guy-Land.  :lol: [/quote]

This is the best post in this pathetic thread. Thanks for the background on the W&M dorm![/quote]

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