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Tue Jan-12-10 10:43 AM
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| How do you pronounce " Timucuan?" Floridians or others, can you |
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Tue Jan-12-10 10:56 AM
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| 1. Hell I grew up in Florida and I've heard it pronounced two ways. |
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:shrug:
tim-uh-cue-an
ti-muh-kwan
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Tue Jan-12-10 11:01 AM
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| 3. I would've thought the first way you said. |
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Listening to an audiobook and the reader says, "tim- uh- can." :shrug:
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Tue Jan-12-10 11:12 AM
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| 4. I hear radio commercials for the town Kissimmee which use a |
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different pronunciation than I'm accustomed.
Next they'll say Florida is the Sun Shimmer State.
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Tue Jan-12-10 11:00 AM
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| 2. tim ew kwan or tim a kwan??? I've only been here for a year |
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but that's how I've heard people say it.
The Park and Preserve is about two minutes away from my house right now
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:31 PM
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Tue Jan-12-10 03:38 PM
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| 6. How about "Tchoupitoulas?" |
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Its a street in New Orleans.
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