For what they pay Heidi Collins, she should be required to pronounce place names correctly.

[Fridays Child]

It's not Ah socka, Heidi. x( It's Wah hocka. :eyes:

(I don't know what she earns but I'll bet it's a bundle.)

[HereSince1628]

1. LOL But can she pronounce Wausau and Milwaukee correctly?

And does she get the accent right when she says Mukwanago?

We are Wisconsin and the road to the White House comes thru here, well, maybe more over toward I-94 than here exactly, but you get my point...

[Fridays Child]

3. Heidi is a hairdo, a well-paid hairdo.

Let's just hope that she can pronounce Wisconsin.

[kiva]

2. Pronunciation counts

The first thing I learned when I moved to Nevada is to pronounce it correctly if you wanted any credibility with the residents. Nothing pisses people off more than mispronouncing the name of their city or state.

[HereSince1628]

5. That's pronounc-iation pardner, They tell all the talking heads

that if they can't pronounce it, they should at least say it with confidence and gravitas.

Personally if they don't know the difference between Colby and cheddar they are screwed when covering Wisconsin.

[LiberalFighter]

4. ??? What city? If it is in Wisconsin I don't recognize it with your phonetics.

[HereSince1628]

6. Was it supposed to be Waupaca?

hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahah!

:rofl:

[Fridays Child]

8. Oaxaca, in Mexico. There was an earthquake, today.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

7. The actual spelling?

Are we talking about Oaxaca? If so, that's a hispanicized mis-pronunciation in the first place. The dirt-dumb Spanish thugs and homicidal priests who invaded what we now know as Mexico couldn't pronounce much of the local languages by virtue of their own lingustic shortcomings.

The area's name in Nahuatl was Huaxyacac (hwa-SHAH-kahk). The ignorant, functionally illiterate Spanish, however, couldn't make the "sh" diphthong and tended to convert every such thing to an aspirated "h" or "z" sound, depending upon the whim of the genocidalists.

The people for whom Mexico are named, for instance, are the muh-SHEE-kuh. Quanuahuac became "Cuernavaca," or cow-horn, as another example.

And yet, despite the best efforts of the Spanish, there are still roughly a million Nahuatl speakers remaining in what was once known as "The Heart of the One World."

Meanwhile, back here at the ranch, we refer to Heidi Collins as "Beaker," for her decided resemblance to that famous Muppet.

[Fridays Child]

9. Yes, Oaxaca.

If I hadn't known better, I would have thought she was referring to Osaka, Japan.