"Chicago" - how is it pronounced correctly?

Dave A
What, you mean you really find llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch hard to pronounce.


EDIT, that name is all one word btw, it just exceeds the character limit for a word on here.
Click to expand...

They just gave a monkey a keyboard didn't they?
 
I say that about the enitre Welsh language, it actually means something. So they say.
 
niky
A lot of people butcher names they're not familiar with.

My Mom's from Spokane, Washington... and every time I hear Spokane spoken :lol: , it's usually spow-Kay-n (WRONG) instead of spow-kahn (RIGHT). Granted, you don't hear it said a lot (maybe once or twice a decade on the news or on shows...), but Gads, people, get it right!
Click to expand...

Considering the number of words that end in -ane, you couldn't expect outsiders to pronounce it any other way then Spoke-ane.
 
What's with all this Shi- and Shy-town? R. Kelly says "Sha", so Sha it is.
 
Famine
Definitely "Shi-Car-Go".

According to my friend Mr. Cholmondeley-Featherstonehaugh.
Click to expand...

Car? CAR???




...THERES NO R!!!

I reaallly don't understand why Austrailians and the British put an "arr" sound on things that are pronounced "ahh". And then you don't pronounce the "r" in things that are rightfully spelled "ar"! What's the big idea?
 
Zrow
Car? CAR???




...THERES NO R!!!

I reaallly don't understand why Austrailians and the British put an "arr" sound on things that are pronounced "ahh". And then you don't pronounce the "r" in things that are rightfully spelled "ar"! What's the big idea?
Click to expand...

I said "car", not "carr". It was a simple way of expressing an elongated "-a", not a pirate.

Posh southern English people insert random "r"s after "a"s - glarss, grarss, gararge - because... something or other.
 
I was watching the Australian show "The Wiggles" with my two year old niece the other day, and at one point in a song, the words are something like "say ahh", at which they all said "aaarrrrrr". It really left me perplexed, as they seemed to do it to any word with that kind of "ah" sound.

Also... Z's instead of S. What gives, Australia?
 
Well, if you're like my cousin from Chicago, it would be "Che-cah-goh."

Most of us Mid-Westerners (at least here in Michigan) will say "Sheh-cah-go."

BTW: I love how people have problems with Michigan. I noticed it first on Top Gear the other night (the one with the Lotus and the Mustang) and then a short trip on Wikipedia with the pronunciations.

For those who don't know; Its "Mish-eh-gan." Not "Mitch-e-gan."
 
Zrow
I was watching the Australian show "The Wiggles" with my two year old niece the other day, and at one point in a song, the words are something like "say ahh", at which they all said "aaarrrrrr". It really left me perplexed, as they seemed to do it to any word with that kind of "ah" sound.

Also... Z's instead of S. What gives, Australia?
Click to expand...
Maybe we're right and you're wrong. Two countries against one. :sly:

Also, the British invented the language. :P
 
Famine
I said "car", not "carr". It was a simple way of expressing an elongated "-a", not a pirate.

Posh southern English people insert random "r"s after "a"s - glarss, grarss, gararge - because... something or other.
Click to expand...

Don't want to sound like those bleeding northerners...
 

Latest Posts

Back