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CJ wrote:
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"CJ" wrote in message
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I guess for someone
familiar with Seattle it is a faux pas comparable to when I hear people
mispronounce "Nevada".


In Iowa, that'd be ne-VAY'-duh.
About 30 miles northeast of Madrid (MADD'-ridd)

The other day I heard someone on a radio game show mention the character
of YOE'-se-myte Sam. How I thought yosemite was pronounced when I read it
in comics...

My mother was born in the German part of Switzerland and a young adult in
the French part. Teaching her how to pronounce Tuolumne (a part of Yosemite
and a California county) was a chore. I finally told her to say "to all of
me" and leave off the "f".

-CJ