Yankee or Dixie???

[tld221]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

Every Duane I know pronounces their name "Doo-Juan."

I'm not in the business of telling people how to pronounce their names.

theres a difference between how someone chooses to pronounce their own name and how a chain store pronounces its name among the public. go ahead and say "doo-juan" and everyone who knows otherwise will, at best sigh and think "bless their heart, they must not be from here" or at worst, sigh and think "what an effing idiot/snooty @ss."

fortunately, in the instance i recall most recently, the kid just didnt know, wasnt from the area.

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

LOL, hooray Sheetcake's back!

And reading this thread, all I can hear in my head is that exchange between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally" when they're in the museum talking in the funny voices and he's trying to get her to say "Pee-can pieee".

I put people that insist on "puh-cahn" in the same category with the people that insist on "fihnance" (real fast, almost monosyllabic) instead of "fie-nance". As though the mere pronunciation makes their context superior. Whatever. Move on.

i thought that it was a European thing...

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by tld221

i thought that it was a European thing...

Could be. But it's also annoyingly prevalent among MBAs and among those in "fihnance".

[tld221]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

<-----has no idea what Duane Reade is, anyway

its a chain drug store in the city, kinda like the Starbucks of drug stores here, so its something the everyday New Yorker would know how to pronounce, as with pronouncing Houston and Stuyvesant.

(and you know i meant the general "you" right?)