Uh ..... media geniuses ..... if yer gunna cite it, at least say it right ..... okay?

[Stinky The Clown]

The poll is the Quinnipiac Poll. It is named for the university that conducts it, Quinnipiac University, just north of New Haven, Conncticut.

Quinnipiac is a Native American name. The river near the university is the Quinnipiac River. Named for the Quinnipiac Tribe.

It is KWIN - ih - pee - yak.

I grew up in the neighborhood and heard it spoken all my life.

It is **absolutely not** kwih NIP ee yak

It is also **not** kwih nih PEE yak

It is also **not** kwih nih pee YAK

Contessa The Air Head Brewer is the worst offender, but she is far, far, far from alone.

Allsion Stewart and Monica Novotny, to my knowledge, have never screwed it up.

KWIN ih pee yak

okay?

[On the Road]

1. There Never Seems to be an Issue in Connecticut

maybe because so many things are called Quinnipiac.

I'm surprised no one is doing pronunciation checks before going on air. The Quinnipiac poll is cited frequently enough for people to get it right.

[jobycom]

2. There's a road here in Austin called Burnet.

Newcomers learn within hours of arriving that it's "Burnet, durnit." So there's a local company advertising how they are a part of Austin and have been here for decades and you shouldn't trust any of these corporate companies that perform the same service but don't really know Austin. And they give their address as "Burn-ETT Road." :rofl:

Yeah, not at all related. Sorry. :(

[Bucky]

3. Pfff, last time I was in Austin and someone directed me to "Guad a LOOP" street.

Everyone in Houston knows Guadalupe is supposed to be pronounced "guad a LOOPY" not "GUAD a LOOP"--how provincial those people are.

[jobycom]

4. yeah, that one always amuses me, too. Funny, I'd almost forgotten the right way to say it!

There's a street in New Orleans called Calliope, which of course everyone knows how to pronounce, except people in New Orleans, who say it "Cally-ope."

Guadaloopy? :rofl:

[Bucky]

7. I was born in New Orleans. I grew up just a few blocks from So-Crates Street

As a child I tried to envision how a seamstress could "sew crates". Years later I learned about this guy "Socrates" but even then I never made the connection.

[jobycom]

8. Ah, them wacky New Orleanians!

Chopatoolas! I think half their street names are just pranks they play on tourists!

Socrates? That's on the west bank? I don't know that many west bankers. My parents and all my relatives grew up in NOLA. My parents left town between Audrey and Betsy, fearing what Katrina did. So they moved to Bay St. Louis, where Betsy flooded our house and Camille tried to blow us away! Then they moved inland about ten miles. When Katrina hit, forty years later, my dad kept saying "Yep, I knew it was a good idea to get out of there when we did." :rofl:

[Gabi Hayes]

5. I love this...I heard that smirking twit Glen Ifil say something about

one of the areas in Iowa being 'inUNdated' the other day

maybe she's too inUNdated with thoughts of dear sweet Condi to keep her head straight

[deaniac21]

6. In Arkansas Stuttgart is Stut Gart.