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15 Oct 2022, 2:10 pm

In Illinois they say "ill annoy". Elsewhere many people say it as "ill a noise" which many find annoying and it makes more noise.

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15 Oct 2022, 2:11 pm

I've never said it at all

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15 Oct 2022, 2:39 pm

The place was named by French explorers. So it has a French spelling. And those Frenchies pronounce things in funny ways. So there ya go. Its "Ill - annoy". Go figger.

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15 Oct 2022, 3:16 pm

Americans don't seem very comfortable with French words. I'm always a bit taken aback at the way they say 'St Louis', and I laughed out loud when I heard Shelley Winters pronounce 'chanteuse' as 'Shantooz' in the original version of Lolita.

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15 Oct 2022, 3:24 pm

I've heard several people butcher the name Strachan (Strawn) lately.

I've heard:

straw-chenn, straw-chann, stray-chenn, stray-chann, stray-can, straw-can, stray-cun, struh-chin, and straw-cane.

Illinois:

It's Ill Innoy, with a schwa.

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15 Oct 2022, 3:36 pm

I've only ever heard 'Strachan' pronounced as 'Strackan' in the UK.

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15 Oct 2022, 3:43 pm

DeepHour wrote:

I've only ever heard 'Strachan' pronounced as 'Strackan' in the UK.

Interesting. It's a Scottish name:

https://forebears.io/surnames/strachan

History lesson for the day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strachan

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15 Oct 2022, 3:44 pm

A young lady on UTube did a bio vid about the actor Charles Boyer.

And throughout the vid always referred to him as "Charles BOY-er".

Ladies of my mom's generation all pronounced the sex symbol's name by the more romantic sounding actual French pronunciation: "Scharels boy-YAY".

Never heard of "Strachan". Never saw the name in print before either. Lol!

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15 Oct 2022, 3:57 pm

Funny enough it was a group of Americans trying to say Strachan, on the news. ^

Charles (not French) boy-YAY (French)

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15 Oct 2022, 4:28 pm

I suppose we have the French to thank for the pronunciation of Arkansas too?

How do you pronounce denizens of Arkansas? Arkansan, Arkansawyer & Arkansians

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15 Oct 2022, 5:01 pm

Yes. Arkansas is a French transliteration of Native American words meaning "the people downstream" (what the tribes farther north called the tribes in what is now the state). And that name has nothing to do with the name of the neighboring state of "Kansas" which was named after the Kansa tribe. And the river that flows through both Kansas and Arkansas is called the "AR- Kansas" in Kansas and is called "the arkansaw" in the state that's pronounced that way. :lol:

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15 Oct 2022, 5:20 pm

^ Thanks.

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15 Oct 2022, 6:04 pm

you're welcome.

So...as we ponder it...lets all groove to some jazz tenor sax.

Being played by...Illinoy jacket? Or ill-innoy-zahKET? Or by...?

....

https://youtu.be/3yxWONmkc14

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15 Oct 2022, 6:46 pm

Doberdoofus wrote:

I suppose we have the French to thank for the pronunciation of Arkansas too?

How do you pronounce denizens of Arkansas? Arkansan, Arkansawyer & Arkansians

Arkansan.

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15 Oct 2022, 7:21 pm

Misslizard wrote:

Doberdoofus wrote:

I suppose we have the French to thank for the pronunciation of Arkansas too?

How do you pronounce denizens of Arkansas? Arkansan, Arkansawyer & Arkansians

Arkansan.

Yes, "Arkansan" which is pronounced "Ar KAN zun". The KAN sounding like the beginning of "Kansas".

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15 Oct 2022, 7:23 pm

^ Thanks.

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