OK but does anyone know if Pierre was ever pronounced “pee-air” or was it spelled “P-I-E-R-R-E” but pronounced “PEER” from day one
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I was born and raised in New York and I still don’t understand why Houston St. is pronounced House-tin.
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I knew this one would be mentioned in this thread.
Houston Street (House-tin) is actually named after a person, William Houstoun. Unlike the Texas city of Houston (Hughs-tun) which is named for Sam Houston.
[QUOTE=Eyebrows 0f Doom]
I knew this one would be mentioned in this thread.
Houston Street (House-tin) is actually named after a person, William Houstoun. Unlike the Texas city of Houston (Hughs-tun) which is named for Sam Houston.
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Sam Houston wasn’t actually a person?
[QUOTE=Eyebrows 0f Doom]
I knew this one would be mentioned in this thread.
Houston Street (House-tin) is actually named after a person, William Houstoun. Unlike the Texas city of Houston (Hughs-tun) which is named for Sam Houston.
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Yeah but the Van Wyke was named after people too and nobody cares.
[QUOTE=Belrix]
Lafayette, Alabama (close to where I went to college) is “La-FAY-it”. Makes my skin crawl - perhaps it’s my Walloon genes.
Add a generous dollop of southern accent to the “FAY”, too.
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Ooh!
If Alabamans make your skin crawl, Louisianans will make it leap right off your body!
Lafayette, Louisiana is pronounced “laffy-ETTE”- that’s “laffy” as in “Laffy Taffy” or “Daffy Duck”.
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Sam Houston wasn’t actually a person?
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Hell no! He was a Texan, by God!
[QUOTE=bienville]
Ooh!
If Alabamans make your skin crawl, Louisianans will make it leap right off your body!
Lafayette, Louisiana is pronounced “laffy-ETTE”- that’s “laffy” as in “Laffy Taffy” or “Daffy Duck”.
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Why, that’s the one Correct & Proper Way[sup]TM[/sup] to pronounce “Lafayette”. All others are, by rule, incorrect 