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Old 08-16-2008, 08:45 AM
AGDLynn AGDLynn is offline
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Buena Vista

GA = Bew (like few) na Vista
Fla = Bwaina (like Braina) Vista

There's also Vienna - ( I HATE HATE Vienna Sausages!)
GA - VI enna
Austria - VE nna

Cairo
GA = K ro (as in Karo syrup)
Egypt = K eye ro


There's prob a couple of more but those are the ones I can think

Ohh...one more!!! And I have to think about this one before I pronounce it each time.

Taliaferro- The local pronunciation of the county's name is somewhat unusual, since it is not phonetically similar to its spelling. The pronunciation sounds like "tolliver" (it rhymes with the common male name "Oliver").

On a side note, ever wonder why Colonel is pronounced kurnal? www.dictionary.com

[kur-nl] illustrates one source for the apparent vagaries of English spelling: divergence between a word's orthographic development and its established pronunciation. In this case, English borrowed from French two variant forms of the same word, one pronounced with medial and final /l/[l], and a second reflecting dissimulation of the first /l/[l] to /r/[r]. After a period of competition, the dissimulated form triumphed in pronunciation, while the spelling colonel became the orthographic standard.
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