<p>Look over on the right in the grey bars above the posts and you’ll see the post number. dmd77 provided [this</a> link](<a href=“http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=674]this”>www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=674) there as a source of why it’s called an egg cream.</p>
<p>dmd77, mootmom, thanks–love that link , great site!</p>
<p>No guesses? Here’s the pronunciation:</p>
<p>Mexia - Meh HAY ah
Colmesneil - KO meh nell (this is a tiny east Texas town whose only claim to fame is having a nice swimming hole)
Bexar County - Bare (with a hint of an “h” in the middle) County (the county of San Antonio)</p>
<p>I actually lived in Albany Ga for a short time that seemed deceptively looooong. My favorite bumper sticker: “Happiness is seeing Albany Ga in your rearview mirror.” I never could say it right. </p>
<p>Firefly, my cousins grew up in Kilgore Tx and somehow stretched Kilgore into 4 syllables. Of course they also talked about “warshin and renchin” the dishes. </p>
<p>TheDad, surely there’s someone here who can channel your egg cream friend.</p>
<p>Pretetmanger,
I had a student a few years ago whose last name was Taliaferro. I thought it would be pronounced in the Italian manner. The girl told me it was pronounced Tolliver and said that that was the English variation of her family name. Her family said some relatives had changed the spelling of the name in the past to the English version. So this girl had distant cousins with the Tolliver spelling. I suppose that if one smooshes the syllables in Taliaferro enough, Tolliver might emerge.</p>
<p>While on the subject of place name pronunciation, I grew up in Louisville, KY. Not one of my family members, friends, teachers, or schoolmates ever pronounced it Loo-uh-vul. We always said Loo-ee-vil. I have heard some natives (a distinct minority) say Loo-uh-vul, but I always thought of it as an affectation by those residents who wanted to seem more southern. I never thought of myself as southern and I think I can say the same for most of my Louisville acquaintances.</p>
<p>Also, Kentuckians do not say y’all. It’s two distinct words - you all 
They are not slurred together where I come from.</p>
<p>dancersmom - interesting about your student. </p>
<p>Re: the KY town. We always said “loo’ vul”, 2 syllables. We also pronounce New Orleans as “nawlings”. Not saying either is right, it’s just how we pronounce it.</p>
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<p>That’s pretty funny to hear because being from NJ, I would have to say I heard just Jersey a majority of the time. But I will agree that we don’t say joisey…</p>
<p>What else do we say?
Orange is pronouced with the first syllable rhyming with “Are”
Newark is pronounced “Nork”</p>
<p>When I say “orange” it only has one syllable!!! ;)</p>
<p>Nanaimo is pronounced Na-NEYE-mo (“Neye” as in “eye”) (been there).
And Newark, CA (yes we also have one here) is also pronounced New Ark (except by me).
Novato CA is pronounced Na-VAH-da but Nevada is pronounced Na-VEH-da (with a slighly elongated “veh”).</p>
<p>OK – here’s another one: “Oregon” is pronounced OR eh gn. NOT OR eh gone.</p>
<p>Ah, yes, but when you say “gone” does it rhyme with “lawn” or with “con”?</p>
<p>It rhymes with “gun.”</p>
<p>Driver, I would have said that Or-ah-gin rims with “kin”. At least that’s the way I hear it spoken in western Washington and western Oregon. The Or-ah-gun (or -gone) pronunications are eastern.</p>
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<p>ding ding ding! Of course if you’ve been there then you should know.
You get a CC nanaimo bar.</p>
<p>and I agree w/ dmd: I say OR-uh-gin.</p>
<p>Interesting, I thought my eastern friends who went to U of O all came back saying Or-uh-gun…perhaps my ear wasn’t keen enough to detect the difference. One thing for sure–you weren’t ever supposed to say Or-uh-gone.</p>
<p>My point was that people from different parts of the country pronounce the word “gone” differently. Some say something like gawn (rhymes with lawn) while some say something like gon (rhymes with con.) Maybe some people would say that all three of them rhyme.</p>
<p>I am applying to join the Unclassifieds, but (at least in the meantime) you may group me with the “gawns”.
But my son, a native Californian, does not follow the traditions of his ancestors and says “gon”. What can one do?</p>
<p>Better serve a double-double from Tim Horton’s to go with that Nanaimo Bar!</p>
<p>Murchie’s for me :)</p>