Something about sweat on ONJ…
and even more pedantic, it is pronounced:
Wash Ing Ton
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Whenever I go to the south or northeast, it is constantly pointed out to me that I have a California accent. It’s usually like the first thing people say to me. “You’re from California, aren’t you?”
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wuh-SHING-toon
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you are sooo wrong. and i don’t care where you live.
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wing-TUN?
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now you’re just toying with me. next you’ll be taunting me with Oar-EEE-Gone, and the Will-Uh-Metty valley.
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Lets solve this now.
@GilbertWham, how do you say Washington?
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Oh-REE-goon
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Well, I had thought my tooth grinding problem was over…
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Oh, I meant anyone who’s never been in Detroit for any length of time, whether they originate from in- or out-of-state. And we’ve got a bit of French ancestry on my dad’s side (Gothro was Gotreau or Gotreaux, no one seems to be too sure), so he made sure we knew how to pronounce the street names that are/were French.
When we were new to Missouri my wife, who spoke fluent French, pronounced Gravois as “grav-waugh” and every time she said it people looked at her like she had a third eye in her forehead. She quickly learned to say “Grav-oi”, as the locals pronounced it.
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And if you’re talking about the capital city, and you’re a local, you pronounce it “DC” (or, if you work in it but live outside it, “Downtown”). No one in or around Washington, DC calls it “Washington.” Ever. 
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The German is equally mispronounced as well… 
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As a kid, I long wondered why adults would sometimes mispronounce ‘physical’. Also, I once asked my mother, who was a notary public, just what a ‘nota’ was (I knew something about ‘republic’).
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This thread is very fustrating.
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No, no. It’s pronounced Warshington.
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Martinique had sugar cane and thus rum.
QED.
