Or-uh-GAHN, until my sisters moved out there and corrected my pronunciation. Now it’s OR-uh-gun.
Usually appaLATCHun, but sometimes appaLAYshn.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anybody pronounce it “Ore-eh-gone,” ever.
I’ll either say “Ore-eh-gun” (closer to “Ore-eh-g’n, really), or “Ore-eh-gon.” I don’t really pick a side.
I don’t say “Appalachian” often enough to even know how I pronounce it.
Pretty common around here (Finger Lakes area of New York.)
Years ago, I happened to say Ore-gun in the hearing of a grocery store clerk, who turned out to be from Oregon and responded with great joy, because he was so tired of hearing the “gone” ending. I’d been out there for about a month, and learned better in a hurry.
Not quite as bad as the friends of mine taking a similar trip about the same time, who asked at a gas station if they were in Arkansass yet. Unfortunately, they were.
— it looks very much as if tailgating somebody to make them speed up doesn’t work, and is far more likely to make them slow down instead.
Agree…except that I think English has only one sound that is usually spelled “ch” at the start of a syllable, but often spelled “tch” at the end of one — not two distinct sounds, as you suggested (“tch” vs. “ch”).
(The IPA symbol for this sound is two symbols together — the “t” followed by the “sh,” reflecting how we articulate the sound with our tongue — but we perceive this as a single phoneme).
Moon with Sam Rockwell 2009 is the best movie about survival in an enclosed space and one of my favorite movies ever.
It’s pretty common in Westerns and such about the westward migration.
I pronounce it like “organ” but with an extra schwa in the middle.
Aye aye to that. I have a fairly high-performance car, and while I CAN speed like the lunatic riding my ass, I choose not to (partly because of all the speed traps here in OH, partly because I just want to cruise and enjoy the ride and speeding excessively requires constant vigilance and prevents me from relaxing in the first place), but if one is on my ass I’ll drop it down 1-2 gears and punch it immediately, esp. if we are trying to pass a big rig, as I’ve had THOSE assholes try to merge into me when I am right beside them far too often.
I’ll check Waze and the upcoming terrain first for any cops or median breaks tho-the ideal situation is we’re approaching the top of a hill. Then merge right and immediately slow down and let Mr. Maniac go on his merry way (he also now makes for an excellent rabbit for any cops up ahead to nab). Tl;dr I am NOT going to fuck around in this situation, and if a cop were to pull ME over I’d just tell him what my reasoning was, and if he tickets me then que sera sera, at least I am not a smear in the landscape. Note this is EXACTLY what one does on the Autobahn in Germany in that situation, else you are going to piss off a LOT of people.
If I’m on a local road, I will often slow down. If I’m in the passing lane on the highway, I will often speed up to clear the lane.
I voted that I will maintain my speed, which is mostly true, but also dependent on a number of factors.
Generally, I just want to get out of the way of someone wanting to go faster than I. Sometimes that might mean speeding up a bit to clear traffic before moving over. But if somebody is really riding close to my ass, I’ll just keep the cruise control steady, and let it take as long as it happens to take to get a clear lane. Let ‘em fume for a bit.
I silenced all notifications, including ring tones, so I never call my phone to find it.
same here. But I can still use “find my phone” feature on my apple watch. I use that about twice a month I’d guess. It’s a very nice feature. I wish the TV remote had the same.
I’ve never quite fallen asleep in a class, I don’t think, but I’ve come close enough that all I was really paying attention to was staying awake.
I’m a farmer. I’m almost never not in some sense at work. I have fallen asleep in a field and in a barn, though when I was deliberately taking a break. I’ve given up on paperwork in order to go to bed. I’ve fallen asleep in a chair when I meant to read something farm-related.
Some Roku remotes have that feature. You press a button on the Roku box or TV or in the phone app, and the remote starts beeping. I was working for Roku when that feature was proposed and I thought it was one of the best ideas we’d ever come up with.
If I’m working from home, and decided to take a nap, and go off the clock, does that count?
I had an overnight shift job at a residential treatment facility for adolecents. I don’t know if I was allowed to nod off, but I’m quite sure I did now and then.
I never fell asleep at school proper, but came close on a technicality. Senior year of high school I had credits in excess of those needed to graduate, so I and a few others were taking morning classes at NMSU. One of those was fine, a 9:30 am class, so no problems. The second was an 7:30 class, and if I wanted a lift (I didn’t have a car), I had to leave the house at around 6:30, which often left me really sleepy.
So on one occasion, I was sitting in the classroom with 45 minutes prior to class start, and just leaned over on the desk and fell asleep, to be awoken about 30 minutes later to drool, backpain, and the noise of my classmates starting to trickle in.
I don’t recall falling asleep in class.
I do recall it happening once at work, when I was still very new at my first full-time job. My boss and I had flown out to Los Angeles to conduct some focus groups on a Monday afternoon/evening; our department had an all-day training session back in Chicago the next day, which we could not miss.
We took a red-eye flight from LAX to ORD, on which I got virtually no sleep – I had an aisle seat, on a full flight, but the person sitting next to me was a young Chinese woman with a fussy toddler on her lap; after we landed, boss and I went directly to the office for the training session. By late morning, I was micro-napping in my seat. 
Was her ethnicity pertinent to your subsequent drowsiness?
Only from the standpoint that she didn’t speak much English, and was having difficulty communicating with the flight attendants (who were trying to help her manage an unhappy toddler).