# Pronounce "Racine" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 8, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounce-racine/535366 "2010-04-08T01:31:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounce-racine/535366/41 "2010-04-09T14:17:04Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > Many residents of Two Rivers, WI pronounce it Trivers. Apparently separating two words is difficult when you live on the lake. > > Oh as for the OP- it is Ruh-seen. My mom grew up in Manitowoc and always called it Trivers. I call it Two Rivers, but if I want to poke fun at her, I say Trivers. And I call it Ray-seen. ---
**Author:** ![justrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@justrob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justrob)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounce-racine/535366/42 "2010-04-09T14:30:57Z")
I grew up in Racine and pronounce it ruh-SEEN, as does everyone in my family. The fact that we have a bunch of people from Chicago checking in to say they’ve always heard it pronounced RAY-seen really just proves the other pronunciation is the correct one. 😉 New Berlin is pronounced New BUR-lin. As far as I know the pronunciation was changed during WWII. This cracks up a buddy that moved here from out of state every time he has to say it. I have no idea about Trivers as I’ve only ever heard it as Two Rivers. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounce-racine/535366/43 "2010-04-09T15:54:04Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > There’s also Berlin, WI, pronounced BER-lin. It was pronounced differently before WWII. Here in Ontario, “Berlin” got renamed to Kitchener (after Herb Kitchener, a British war hero) during WWI. That showed those pointy-helmeted goons in the trenches! I bet Ludendorf cried when he found out. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounce-racine/535366/44 "2010-04-09T16:05:15Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Usually, in English, there is either a primary or secondary accent on the last syllable anything that ends in -ine. I can imagine ray-SEEN, but not RAY-seen. xxxx ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounce-racine/535366/45 "2010-04-09T17:49:44Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > To me Ray-seen sounds like something a hillbilly would say. So I suppose you consider those folks in Lima, OH to be downright crackers, eh? ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounce-racine/535366/46 "2010-04-09T18:52:26Z")
There’s a township in Michigan called Buena Vista, they pronounce it Bewna Vista, ack. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounce-racine/535366/47 "2010-04-09T20:22:30Z")
A main road in my Snowbird Mom’s northern town is named “Milan”-locals say it as “MY-lan.” I always pronounce it in the Italian idiom, “Mee-LAAN,” and she’s always asking me, “What road again?” ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounce-racine/535366/48 "2010-04-10T01:06:59Z")
Kringle! 😃 * * * \<\< Nom, nom, nom! \>\> ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounce-racine/535366/49 "2010-04-10T01:14:29Z")
It’s Ruh SEEN. I’ve yet to hear any “native” from the area (I live in IL a couple of miles from the border) and have never heard anyone local here or in WI ever pronounce it any differently… ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounce-racine/535366/50 "2010-04-10T20:36:58Z")
> [@Nightsong](#): > > Kringle! > > 😃 > > * * * > > \<\< Nom, nom, nom! \>\> Nom nom nom is right. Mmm… cherry kringle… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounce-racine/535366.md?page=2)