Can You Pronunce This?

NPR was doing a short bit on the name of a lake—a long, long name, tough for anyone except local folks to pronounce. After spelling it, the reporter asked a resident of the area to say it for the radio audience.

"Okay," the resident began, "here's the correct pronounciation..."

We're not making fun of the person's speech—we've probably all had comparable brain-burps, and heard skilled users of the language do something comparable. We're just pointing out that when pronunciation changes from one part of speech to another, we have to take a little extra care. (And we're not even going to try to spell or pronounce the name.)

 

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