# Flyer pings the bigot radar.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 17, 2017, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flyer-pings-the-bigot-radar/804725 "2017-12-17T18:37:48Z")\
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> [@Lord\_Feldon](#):
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> He was just an all-around fundamentalist. Doing anything differently than him wasn’t just a difference, but sinfully wrong. That’s not uncommon on here, or the Internet generally, but he took it to an extreme. The most absurd example I can think of is that he insisted that the S in Louisville must be pronounced because the letter S is [always pronounced](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17541257&postcount=53) and goddamn all those illiterates who disagree.

I rolled my eyes at this:

> [@City names: local pronunciation vs everyone else](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-local-pronunciation-vs-everyone-else/692849/53):
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> Incorrect. Everybody who knows how the English language works pronounces it “Louis-ville.”
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> An “s” in the middle of a name is always, always, ALWAYS pronounced, regardless of how many faux-educated people think differently.

Except Louisville was name for King Louis XVI of France, so French pronunciation rules apply.

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