Scott Shannon --- oops!

[SFStatic]

Years ago, Gene Nelson used to say San Jos'  (rhymes with most.) Of course, he KNEW what he was saying!

[FatPunk]

On the subject of "oops...voice-tracking," couple days ago, heard a jock on 103.7 refer to Antioch as, "Anti-auch," hard 'ch' sound, as in 'chair."

Obviously, the dude ain't from around here.

Wait...are you talking about Antioch, TN?  If you are, and you're referncing WPTQ as 103.7, then I dunno who it was....I grew up in Louisville, been down here in the BG area off-and-on for years, even had a childhood g/f move to Antioch, so I've always known how its said...The other two male jocks on 103.7 in BG...one also grew up in KY, the other in VA, but he's been in the BG area for 12 years...I doubt it was any of us!

[sandwix]

Quote from FatPunk:
"Wait...are you talking about Antioch, TN?" 


KKSF, San Francisco, CA.

[Element9]

On the subject of "oops...voice-tracking," couple days ago, heard a jock on 103.7 refer to Antioch as, "Anti-auch," hard 'ch' sound, as in 'chair."

Obviously, the dude ain't from around here.

He's also kind of a dumb-a**.  Antioch is an ancient Greek city, and there's also Antioch, Indiana and Antioch, Ohio - home of the well known Antioch University - which has satellite campuses in Seattle, Los Angeles, and a couple of other cities.

You don't have to be from around here to know it's pronounced "ant-e-ock."

Not that I'm the geography police, but the Antioch to which you refer as being in Greece is actually in what is now Turkey; just up the road from Syria, once part of the Byzantine and Persian Empire and yes, once known as the Empire of the Greeks. The good nuns beat this into my head in the seventh grade, it was all part of being Orthodox Catholic. Just sayin'.

[DavidKaye]

Sometimes local names are challenging.

Ygnacio Valley Road is pronounced "ig-NAY-she-oh", but the town of Ignacio is pronounced "ig-NAH-see-oh".  Microsoft's xvoice.dll text to speech engine actually gets it backwards, but another version of their TTS gets it right.

Also, the name "Bernal" is pronounced "BURR-null" when used to talk about San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood, but is pronounced "burr-NAL" when referring to the street and neighborhood in Pleasanton, even though both are named after the same Bernal family.

[Lkeller]

Sometimes local names are challenging.

Ygnacio Valley Road is pronounced "ig-NAY-she-oh", but the town of Ignacio is pronounced "ig-NAH-see-oh".  Microsoft's xvoice.dll text to speech engine actually gets it backwards, but another version of their TTS gets it right.

Also, the name "Bernal" is pronounced "BURR-null" when used to talk about San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood, but is pronounced "burr-NAL" when referring to the street and neighborhood in Pleasanton, even though both are named after the same Bernal family.

Yes - I live in BURR-nal Heights.  When I first moved here, I pronounced the name as I knew it - Ber-NALL.  People would look at me funny, like I was some kind of snob.

[Bowler Bob in Brisbane]

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Yes - I live in BURR-nal Heights.  When I first moved here, I pronounced the name as I knew it - Ber-NALL.  People would look at me funny, like I was some kind of snob.
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I was born in Bernal Heights at 325 Montcalm St. and Alabama, and learned the proper pronunciation of my neighborhood at 3 years old.

Conversely, having lived in the Bay Area all of my life I didn't learn the proper pronunciation of "Worcester" until just a few months ago, lol.

"War-chester", "Wooster", what's the difference?

Apparently a lot!

I still remember the first time I found out that I had been pronouncing "Grinich" totally wrong.

After all, wasn't the Wicked "Witch" of the West "green"?

It is kinda funny when a radio personality from somewhere else comes here and says "New-ark", instead of "New-erk".

[djj]

Agreed on that "New-ark", instead of "New-erk" pronunciation, Bowler Bob.
I chuckle when I hear the same thing...

In addition to Antioch and the other regions with mis-pronunciation problems,
here are two more from the North Bay:

Years ago, I would hear Saint Helena (Huh-LEE-nuh) incorrectly pronounced
like the town in Montana with the same spelling (HELL-uh-nuh)...

In my hometown Vallejo, we pronounced it "vuh-LAY-oh" back in the day.
Then in the 1990s, I heard it annoyingly pronounced "vuh-lay-HO" or the more
ridiculous "vah-HAY-ho" (the latter on a 1989 RTO-Rent-To-Own radio spot,
which I have on a KNBA aircheck)...

Then again, it should be properly pronounced Vie-YAY-ho, if we were to
implement the Spanish "LL" usage...I fondly remember Paul Revere And The
Raiders making fun of the town's pronunciation during a concert skit at the
Solano County Fair in 1994...

I am surprised an outsider has not pronounced that West Contra Costa town, Rodeo,
as "ROE-dee-oh," 'sted of "roe-DAY-oh" - or have any of you heard it already?
--jay

[elchupacabras]

Or what about the state of Nevada? Is is Ne vah duh or Nay VAH dah, such as in Spanish. I prefer the latter, but many in the state claim the former.

[DavidKaye]

I am surprised an outsider has not pronounced that West Contra Costa town, Rodeo,
as "ROE-dee-oh," 'sted of "roe-DAY-oh" - or have any of you heard it already?
--jay

I am adamant in my pronunciation of the cow show as a "roe-DAY-oh".  The pronunciation is said that way in much of California, but most especially the Salinas/Monterey area, where you will *never* hear the abomination "ROE-dee-oh".