Utah has some strangely pronounced names of places, Hurricane, being probably the most famous, But there's also Scipio, Panguitch, and a slew of others.
I'm not going to tell you the correct way to say these yet, but here are a few names that threw me off when I first arrived in North Carolina. What do you think they should be?
Guilford
McIver
Also, I finished my torture sessions (i.e. placement exams that included written theory and history, dictation and music listening portions spread across two mornings) today. This is perhaps when I saw this headline:
ESPN.com - Mets' Wagner out indefinitely with more elbow pain
I may be excused for thinking that the Metropolitan Opera was not going to be playing Wagner....
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Mantua pronounced Man a way
Tooele pronounced Too ill ah
Spanish Fork pronounced Spanish Fark(This only applies to Spanish Fork and not American Fork as Spanish Fork has a large population of Icelandic people who pronounce the o in fork as an aw sound.)
Nephi pronounced Knee Figh(Lots of people pronounce it Ne fee)
Hurricane pronounce Huri can(To ryhme with levrkin)
Monticello pronounced Monti sell o
Of course many other states have names spelled one way and pronounced another way.
Ptarmigan Alaska pronounced Chi ken
So there you go
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