How do you pronounce that?

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat May 27, 2006 1:36 pm

Ha-never call San Francisco 'Frisco, unless you're from So. Cal.

Accents never leave you, my students still laugh at certain words I say. I just never got that Maryland sweet drawl.......................

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat May 27, 2006 1:46 pm

Oh, well we must have been very naughty..................it is one of those things.

*innocent look*

Diego is OK, but no one says it.

L.A.-you go for the abbreviation.

But 'Frisco, nah.

Back East I haven't encountered anything like that.

Washington, D.C. is D.C.

Baltimore, is Baltimore.

Pennsylvania-they say Penn.

New Jersey, Jersey.

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Sat May 27, 2006 1:57 pm

Chonsi I think that's "Joisey"!!

:yh_giggle

My sister lives in a town called "Kooskie" according to the locals,

yet it's spelled "Kooskia". I don't know if somebody said it wrong

once and ever after the rest just copied it or what.

Then there's always my fave to get people to try and say:

OAXACA.

Prounounced: wha-HAWK-uh.

:D

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat May 27, 2006 1:58 pm

Ah, I say it anyway. Ticks them off.

I never call the 695 the Beltway-what a silly name. I say I came up on the freeway. Oh, they just look at me.......................:wah:

Took me years to figure out what they meant by inner and outer loops...............

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat May 27, 2006 2:05 pm

valerie wrote: Chonsi I think that's "Joisey"!!

:yh_giggle

My sister lives in a town called "Kooskie" according to the locals,

yet it's spelled "Kooskia". I don't know if somebody said it wrong

once and ever after the rest just copied it or what.

Then there's always my fave to get people to try and say:

OAXACA.

Prounounced: wha-HAWK-uh.

:D
:wah: I could hear that Jersey speak!

Oaxaca-I loved when I had students from there, they had the neatest Mayan names, or names in Nuahtl-I've only had one back here and was the only teacher who could pronounce it, the student was amazed.

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Sat May 27, 2006 2:15 pm

If Kansas is pronounced Kansas, why isn't Arkansas pronounced Ar-kan-sas?

Why is it pronounced Ar-ken-saw??? :sneaky:

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat May 27, 2006 2:16 pm

Always nice to have a dictionary of their primary language-makes it kind of fun when you get new students! Unfair advantage for me is, if I have Spanish speaking students I can tell them something in Spanish, and make the other students wonder all day long how I told them to get back on task with their schoolwork!

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat May 27, 2006 2:27 pm

Get a picture dictionary, one without words. Then you can use it for all languages. Jot down the words for the items they need in school, and you will pick up a zillion other useful words along the way.