Headin' South - a plea for advice/help - Page 5

wendybeth · 01-17-2007, 09:00 PM

I can always tell when telemarketers attack- they pronounce Spokane 'Spo-cane', instead of 'Spo-can'. I also love the yearly garbling of Gonzaga by th sportscasters, although they are getting better.

Not Afraid · 01-17-2007, 05:48 PM

I like San Pedro. It's very isolated (although a major freeway runs to it making it MUCH more accessable than the South Bay) and on the coast, which is a big plus. There are some really great areas and some really bad areas (as with most urban environments). It is definately a "working class" town with the commercial and budy industrial Port of Los Angeles & Long Beach/Alamedia Corridor/Oil Refineries all surrounding it (as well as the tony Palos Verdes/Rolling Hills to the North West). There is an arts scene present since they converted Ft. MacArthur to house artist studios and an art "colony". There is no mass transit to the area. It would be worth looking into at least.

Not Afraid · 01-17-2007, 05:56 PM

Cahuenga Tujunga

Washington is MUCH worse - Humptulips et all.

Prudence · 01-17-2007, 06:46 PM

Sequim!

Alex · 01-17-2007, 08:20 PM

Except Humptulips and Sequim are pronounced exactly as they should be. Now, how they're supposed to pronounced isn't exactly clear to outsiders but at least we don't just randomly change whether we're going to pronounce the Indian word or some English perversion if it. (Of course, almost in Washington is Aloha, Oregon, which is pronounced completely wrong.)

Puyallup.

Not Afraid · 01-17-2007, 10:20 PM

Cost-ah Mesa instead of Coast-ah Mesa always got to me.

MouseWife · 01-17-2007, 10:23 PM

Otay Mesa. I think they say 'O-tie Mesa'. But that isn't how it looks, is it?

€uroMeinke · 01-17-2007, 10:39 PM

Ack - I'm trying to figure out the English pronunciations in England - Thames, Leicester Square, etc.

Ghoulish Delight · 01-18-2007, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Ack - I'm trying to figure out the English pronunciations in England - Thames, Leicester Square, etc.

"Tems", "Lie-ster",

Macnehster is "Manchester" (the "e" syllable is there, but very very short.

Good luck with Worcestershire. It's approximately Worshester

Not Afraid · 01-17-2007, 10:42 PM

And, pray tell, what is a "Mews"?

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wendybeth Nevermind Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,847	I can always tell when telemarketers attack- they pronounce Spokane 'Spo-cane', instead of 'Spo-can'. I also love the yearly garbling of Gonzaga by th sportscasters, although they are getting better. __________________
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Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	I like San Pedro. It's very isolated (although a major freeway runs to it making it MUCH more accessable than the South Bay) and on the coast, which is a big plus. There are some really great areas and some really bad areas (as with most urban environments). It is definately a "working class" town with the commercial and budy industrial Port of Los Angeles & Long Beach/Alamedia Corridor/Oil Refineries all surrounding it (as well as the tony Palos Verdes/Rolling Hills to the North West). There is an arts scene present since they converted Ft. MacArthur to house artist studios and an art "colony". There is no mass transit to the area. It would be worth looking into at least.
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Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	Cahuenga Tujunga Washington is MUCH worse - Humptulips et all.
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Except Humptulips and Sequim are pronounced exactly as they should be. Now, how they're supposed to pronounced isn't exactly clear to outsiders but at least we don't just randomly change whether we're going to pronounce the Indian word or some English perversion if it. (Of course, almost in Washington is Aloha, Oregon, which is pronounced completely wrong.) Puyallup.
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Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	Cost-ah Mesa instead of Coast-ah Mesa always got to me.
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MouseWife Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Da' Beach Posts: 2,957	Otay Mesa. I think they say 'O-tie Mesa'. But that isn't how it looks, is it? __________________ Summa' time....when the livins' easy.........
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€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	Ack - I'm trying to figure out the English pronunciations in England - Thames, Leicester Square, etc. __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	And, pray tell, what is a "Mews"?
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