How many of you people pronounce Illinois with the "s"?
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I have never thought about it, but now that you mention it, yes you are right, the S is silent, but the name would look silly and incorrect if it wasn't there....\n\nYou know what else? I think spelling like this with the pronunciation that we have all grown up with, we can blame the French! LOL! I'm only half joking, but there's a grain of truth when it comes to some place names because they (as a nation) were there, and other European languages do the same.\n\nIt's even worse sometimes with peoples first names and surnames.
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it is: betary\n\n(i live in illinois)
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I don't know of any in Illinois but in KY I do. ;)
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Hi there,\n\nThe right pronunciation of 'Often' is without the 't' in it. But, due to various social and cultural influences, people in some parts of the world tend to pronunce the 't' also.\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/pronounce;_ylt=AvgI3UakgM2lKkCQttnj296ugMMF?id=P0143400&path=prons/P0143400.wav
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I've found it is more common to use "aitch" but there are some people in england who say "haitch" instead, but remember not everyone. Both are correct.
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I think it can be pronounced a number of ways. \n  Nye- yen, Noo-yen, When, and Nwen are the ones I've heard.
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maybe we should rename it a Hannah\n\nand why does Lisp have an S.
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When I lived in Pittsburgh, PA people pronounced Washington as Wershington and would say "yuens guys" which is suppose to be pronounced "you guys"..But that is just a regional thing.I think the funniest times I have heard mispronounced words is during numerous Bush speeches....And then there is ex Vice President Dan Quayle who spells potato as potatoe.
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Well...why don't you find out and tell me next time we come across each other?\n\nWell...anyway, none of the others are pronunced like that too.\n\n22 - twoteetwo? lol\n\n33 - threeteethree? even more hilarious\n\nonly 44 is like that - and 66, 77, 88, 99\n\n55 - fivetyfive? nah\n\nThe English Language has no permanent rule, since it takes the roots of too many other languages. Nothing makes sense.
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It's pronounced [/ˌwɪkiˈpiːdi.ə/] or [/ˌwiki-/] (IPA format).\n\nI pronounce wiki to rhyme with quicky, but I've heard others say "wicker-pedia", where the wicker part which sort of rhymes with snicker.\n\nWiktionary has an audio file showing the UK and US ways of pronouncing it. You can listen to them at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikipedia
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When I lived in America a few years ago, I not only had to say "sidewalk" and "elevator", I had to pronounced 'butter' like "Berrrrrrr", or else everyone in the coffee-shop would fall about saying "But-tah? Did you say But-tah?"\nSame for Tomayto!\nWhen in Rome! I came home after two years with an American accent!
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I live in illinois, but will i do?
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the "z" way is the American spelling, the "s" way is the European spelling
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You spelled it right, it is the pronunciation that most get wrong, they say gover-ment most of the time, people tend to forget there is a "N" in there.
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I used to live in the state of Indiana years ago. As far as I know, the word "hoosier" is of unknown origin. One theory that I heard was it came from the common practice of shouting "Who's here?" upon receiving visitors.
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Qu-ee-u-ee\n\nJust kidding. The proper pronunciation is linked below. (I couldn't copy and paste it because of the unusual characters.)