Mostly they haven’t, actually.
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WUS-tah?
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Wista
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In California, place names go in one of three boxes—American English pronunciation, Mexican Spanish pronunciation, or Mexican Spanish pronunciation as mangled by generations of English speakers.
Yosemite is in the third category. It’s reasonable for non-native speakers to get it wrong. It would even be reasonable for Trump to get it wrong, if he weren’t the fucking POTUS. It’s his job to know this shit.
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The battle cry of the famous counter terrorism task force, GI Jew.
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They’re absolutely convinced that “Los Angeles” must rhyme with breeze and cheese
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Barre, VT is pronounced “bare-ee”
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This entire timeline has been a typo.
Pierre (the capital of South Dakota) has only one syllable
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Versailles, Kentucky is pronounced Ver-Sales. If you ask where Vehr-Sigh is, they will tell you France.
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Pier, right? Like, take a long walk off of…
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Oh god. The day has come. I find myself agreeing with the racist, impeached, orange turd on the tiniest thing. I didn’t know how to pronounce Yosemite either, until about 15 years ago. Some major differences: I’m Australian. Never knew about the link between “Yoss-might” (how I pronounced it, only ever having seen it printed) and Yosemite Sam. Have never been to the US. And I’m about as far from the American Fucking President as you can get.
Nonetheless, I don’t think I can go on now that I know I have something in common with the orange turd. Someone kill me please.
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I wonder if some unfortunate low-level speechwriter just got shitcanned for failing to write the word out fuh·neh·ti·kuh·lee.
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Fascinating! I wonder how he pronounced his name, and what its etymology is.
Vermont has quite a few bastardized French place names (“mont-peel-yer”, and the name of the state itself) so I assumed it to be one of those.
I suspect anyone from the Commonwealth would be fine.
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His parents were Huguenots, so the name is French.
It’s okay. Now you know how to pronounce it and racist, impeached orange turd still doesn’t. Balance restored, murder unnecessary.
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For a second there I thought you were talking about Yosemite Sam.
Oh, sorry, Yosemité Sam.
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