I have never heard anyone mispronounce "Ottawa" the way @TuckerCarlson does here. Very odd.

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Andrew Feinberg
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Oct 9, 2020
I have never heard anyone mispronounce "Ottawa" the way @TuckerCarlson does here. Very odd.



Helen Kennedy
@HelenKennedy
Fun fact: ah-TAO-wah is a small town in Thighland.

[Funtatlaguy]

1. How does he pronounce... Yo Semites ?

That might be my favorite Trumpism ever.

[mzmolly]

2. Ah-TAO-wah?

[Grokenstein]

5. Maybe he's asking his assistant for a Dasani.

"Otto, waaaawa!"

[Midnight Writer]

3. Reminds me of Glenn Beck lecturing us on the famous labor event in Pana, IL

He claims every union in the country chants "Remember Pana!" at their meetings, yet he mispronounces it every time.

[Shaddox]

4. JFC - no emphasis on any syllable. Also, most of us Canadians say "0ddawah". T's are too fancy.

[H2O Man]

6. He is using the

Ojibwe promounciation of the phrase.

[crickets]

10. 2020 has broken me and I have lost all ability to tell when people are serious.

It's really starting to get to me.

[H2O Man]

13. I am serious.

It's an Algonquin language, and the phrase translates approximately to "the trade," or "to trade."

A number of place-names in the NE come from Indian phrases, rather than single words. I live near the Susquehanna River, which is also a phrase. It's interesting that both the Algonquin and Iroquois peoples living at various places along the river used a similar sounding phrase for the river, with somewhat different meanings.

Not far from Oneonta, NY, there is a village named Otego. Locals pronoune it "Oh-tea-go," thought the phrase that is based upon was "ott-tu-go."

Perhaps I am giving Tucker too much credit, though I normally give him none. But, intentional or not, he was pretty close to accurate.

[smirkymonkey]

7. Add a "y" at the end and it's my mother's maiden name.

I never would have pronounced it any other way than the way it should be pronounced.

[dflprincess]

8. How do you not know how to pronounce the name of the capital

of the country your country shares a really long border with?

[NotANeocon]

12. And the country bigger than yours on the same continent.

[Bev54]

9. I am Canadian

and I found that hilarious.

[ironflange]

11. Same here