WhiteEyebrows
Anyone who pronounces our 36th state with a 2nd syllable fit for Queen Elizabeth’s court – “ni-VAHH-duh” – clearly doesn’t live in the west, can’t speak american english, and probably would get laughed off the sidewalk for such a pretentious pronunciation.
It’s ni-VAA-duh. Get it right, or pay the price.
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I actually had to correct my geology proffessor in college on this pronunciation because it drives me so crazy when people get it wrong!
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Whoever taught you to use copy/paste should be shot.
Can you add “chwoney” to that liist of mispronunciations? It approximates “twenty”, but is more popular. Also, most people leave the “k” off of the word ask, evoking at least a chuckle from me.
Don’t axe me why people have such a hard time with pronunciations. Yous guys should listen to some of the Philly locals. Sheesh!
First, Rhia, that was just cold. Second, let’s add people who refuse to put “g”s on the end of their words, and this rage began long before the Palin thing. And people who somehow don’t recognize that there is a T in the word sentence. Or people who pronounce “Las Vegas” as folows: Los Vugus.” Ewww. For the love, the blessed English language (imperfect as it is) needs no help being quirky so we should likely all just fall in line and pronounce words correctly (read: the way that sounds right to me).