East Coast friends cannot pronounce Nevada, Oregon ??

[LVZ]

Here's a good handy resource.

You can click on any name of a US state or major US, Canadian, Australian, or European city to hear the pronunciation.

https://xradio.us/start/time-place-pronounce.html

[Las Vegas Mixx]

1. or search for the Western States for Dummies page

[2naSalit]

2. ...

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. It's only Nev AHHH duh IF YOU SPEAK SPANISH.

For all the rest of us it's Nev a duh.

[Las Vegas Mixx]

6. the Spanish pronunciation is also different from the East Coast invented mispronunciation ...

https://xradio.us/american-states-english-vs-spanish-pronunciation/

[Haggis for Breakfast]

7. I once worked for the U S Public Health Service

in San Francisco, and my territory included Nevada, so I travelled there several times each year. EVERY time I heard some out of stater mangle the name, everyone around me from the State offices in Carson City IMMEDIATELY corrected them in Spanish and English for the respective speakers.

What always surprises me is how many national desk news anchors mangle the names - Nevada and Oregon - you'd think that THEY would know better. I've also heard: Ha VIE ee. And Mizz ur ah. And don't even get me started on the various atrocities committed on New Orleans. It's only NAW lins if you've lived there, which I did for a time, so stop trying to sound like a Ragin' Cajin, unless your name is USArmy General Russell Honore.

I'm sure there are other places that get misprounced badly, too. I know that some of the First Nations hear their Tribal names twisted but they try to help correct them here in WA.

Personally I get lost talking to New Englanders. It's like we're not speaking the same language. It took me years to find out what a "nominal egg" was.

[Harker]

4. Nevada...

Isn't that where Lass Veegus is?

[yonder]

5. "your're not from here, are ye?"

usually pops into mind when I hear Vaw and Gone.