No, “geoduck”. Try it that way at the Mirriam-Webster site.
I should know how to spell it, it’s my college mascot.
And the mack daddy of all cites is here.
Interesting. I swear that I have seen it spelled “Goeduck” far more often, and you can find plenty of cites under that spelling on the search engines. But the Wikipedia article and others are under “geoduck”.
Look at footnore 1 on this site. It claims that “goeduck” was the original spelling, and that “geoduck” was the result of a spelling mistake (on the East Coast no less!) that stuck! That sounds suspicious to me:
http://www1.leg.wa.gov/documents/opr/FEP/2004/FEP32.PDF#search=‘goeduck’
I suspect this is the prevailing attiotude towards spelling:
And Beth-lm, not Beth-leh-hem. Now you have me drooling for Lebanon bologna…that stuff is like crack. Mom eats it on white bread with butter.
Anyhoo, we have a Lebanon here in NH too and outsiders say LebaNON as well.
I thought it was more like skoo-kull…?
:smack: That’s what I get for not reading the whole thread. :smack:
While watching ESPN2’s coverage of the Tour of California bicycle race last month, commentator Paul Sherwin (from the other hemisphere) managed to jar on this local’s ears by referring to Marin County as “MARE-in” and Martinez as “Martin-EZZ,” rather than “mu-RINN” and “Mar-TEEN-ez.”
This confuses the hell out of local radio news people. They can do one or the other correctly but not both. It’s funny to listen to someone try it.
Robin
When I was in the hill country for a visit, we crossed the Brazos River. I still can’t seem to say it correctly. Bray zoss (long “o”) is as close as I get and I don’t think that is exactly right.
Along side Duckabush
I’m from Washington, and everytime I hear someone on the news say “ya KEE ma” I yell at the tv. YAK i ma. Wenatchee seems to give a lot of non-Washingtonians trouble as well. Oh, and Cle Elum, (Clee el uhm) we used to camp there, as well as next to the north fork of the Nooksak River.
Up here, we get a lot of East Coasters reporting the news and weather on the local radio station. You can tell the newbies when they mangle Ouzinkie. (you ZINk ee) There is an ongoing dispute even among the locals as to whether Rezanof Street is pronounced REZ a nov or rez AH noff. Between the Native and Russian names, it takes a while to not sound fresh off the boat.
Maybe he got it from George Bush Senior, who went off on a rant a couple years ago about the evils of MARE-in County, where kids are encouraged to join the Taliban. Note to George: before you start dissing a place, figure out how to pronounce its name first.
Fortunately for me, I know how to pronounce Marin, so I can mock it all I like.
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I’m from Washington, and everytime I hear someone on the news say “ya KEE ma” I yell at the tv. YAK i ma./quote]
I heard that with all the California transplants and Asian-Americans moving to Yakima, the local pronunciation has basically changed to ya KEE ma.
I always tease my friend from Troy, NY, when we cross the Kosciusko Bridge up there. I refer to it as the Kos-kee-oo-skoh bridge, like the traffic reporters in NYC. “Kuh-shoosh-ko” she always screams back.
“Kosh-CHOOSH-ko” is the correct Polish pronunciation (I was brung up learning Polish pronunciation), but I doubt if enough people realize that to make it standard pronunciation. Too damned many people say “Kos-kee-OSS-ko” for both the bridge and the mustard. But we don’t regard it as “correct”.
Yep, that’s part of it. She’s Polish and insists on the correct pronunciation; I’m not even clear on how it’s pronounced locally in that area, just how it’s pronounced in her car. 
So you’re a greener? Cool.
But then there’s a bar there called the Montauket, named after the local tribe, and it’s pronounced “m’n TAWK it.” Sag Harbor has a lovely park, name of “Mashashimuet.” When I was growing up, it was easer to just call it “Mash-potato Park.”
Don’t forget Sachem (SAY-tch’m), up the Island.
In East Hampton, in the Northwest Woods area, there’s two roads: Ely Brook and Alewive Brook. They’re pronounced the same: “Elly.” Confuses the heck out of those who are from away.
And it was so that the men of Brooklyn said unto him, “Art thou a Manhattanite?” If he said, “Nay,” then said they unto him, “Say now ‘Kosciusko.’” And he said “Kosh-ee-OOS-ko,” for he could not frame to pronounce the “c” as a “k”. Then they took him and slew him at the passages of the BQE.
Hey, I got to reuse posts from last July’s “You’re not from around here” thread twice so far and no one said anything…