Attn: Easterners
Oregon is pronounced OR-e-gun. Not o-re-GON.
The first “a” in Nevada is pronounced like the “a” in cat or rat, not like the “a” in car or far.
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I’m an easterner.
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I’ve never heard Oregon pronounced other than with the emphasis on the first syllable.
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Dictionary.com says both pronunciation of Nevada are correct. Believe it or not, some words actually have more than one correct pronunciation.
I have, a number of times.
Nevada is a place. The people who actually live there pronounce it in a specific way, and I figure they’re right and dictionary.com is wrong.
Some people pronounce it OR-e-gun. Some people pronounce it or-e-GON. Some people say tomayto, some people say sun-dried-sliced-dusted-with-basil-and-parsley tomahto.
Wherefore, dude, chill. It’s all good. 
You realize that “Nevada” is from the Spanish and as such, “nay-VAH-dah” is truly the proper pronunciation. 
Yes. They’re called Oregonians.
Yes. They’re called New Yorkers.
Which are you going to trust?
There was an ep of the old “Adam-12” series where one of the guest characters had just moved from Oregon. She mentioned the state several times, and I swear she kept pronouncing it “organ,” i.e., with no middle syllable.
Yeah? Well, then, it’s ver-MONT, not VER-mont. So there.
I am chill. There is no anger here. It just makes me wince every time I hear one of my fine friends here in the lands east of the Mississippi pronounce one of these states’ names wrong. If I start pronouncing Ontario as “onta-RI-o”, would you ignore it or say “hey, it’s on-TAR-io”? My guess is the latter.
Most people know it’s il-uh-NOY, not il-uh-NOYZ, but some say NOYZ because they think it’s funny.
It isn’t.
That’s all I meant. 
Buy you a beer to make up for it?
Yep. I tell my out-of-state friends that its “Organ, as pipe ___ or vital ___”
OAR-ee-gun is also acceptable, but most natives are too lazy for all three sylables .
I say il-uh-NOYZ becuase that’s how Jay (of Jay & silent Bob) said it in Dogma. And yes, I say it that way becuase I think it’s funny. Then again, I also think it’s funny how mid-westerners say Vermont and Nevada.
Attn: Kyla
The word “pronunciation” is not spelled "pronounciation.
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Ahh, one of my favorite topics. Back In The Day, there was a popular line of cards and bumperstickers making fun of people who said “Ory-gawn”. The correct pronunciation was of course given as “Ory-gun”. But that was itself laughable. The middle "e’ is elided by native Oregonians into oblivion. So it is actually pronounced very close to “Or-gun”, much like “organ”.
The number of debates I’ve had with Oregonians who insist that the middle “e” is fully pronounced and then turn around and omit it is countless.
What gets me are newsmen like Tom Brokaw who used to pronounce it right and then once they become Big Time NYC News Anchors start to adopt affectations like “Ory-gawn”.
As a general rule, they people who live there should have priority in specifying correct pronunciation. E.g., “Gouchester”/“Gloster”. But I think the folks in “Ba(l)-mer” are out of luck.
I blame Gaudere.
Oh and it has come to my attention that some of you may be mispronouncing my name.
The correct way to say Zebra is “Sex God” or in less formal settings, simply “God”.
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Whenever someone pronounces it “Or-e-GON” my response is, “No, Or-e-GUN is still there.”
:rolleyes:
Thank you.
With the pronunciation of their own state name, well, of course the Oregonians, but with my wallet, neither one. (had my wallet stolen in a bar in Tualatin.) 