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#161035 07/25/06 04:22 PM
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Puy from a well? (french) all from ally? up from up you go?
Where's that pie? A high location. Pie in the sky?

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Puy as in guy as in pie.

#161037 07/25/06 06:29 PM
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Allright,thanks!Puyallup.Easy.That didn't take long, did it?

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They'll never find it pronounced like that although I'll admit that being from Vangcoover I might be a little off myself.

#161039 07/26/06 03:25 PM
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poo-y'all-up And the same to you!
Though in this case y'all doesn't rhyme with pal.

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>>>Vangcoover

HA! Same type of thing happens to the pronunciation of Québec. Many of my English friends say they live in this foreign place called kwee-beck, when oddly, they live on the same island I do.

#161041 07/28/06 03:09 PM
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> Though in this case y'all doesn't rhyme with pal.

does it ever?


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#161042 07/28/06 11:59 PM
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The "puy" is pronounced pyoo, which rhymes with goo and few and through.
The "all" is pronounced like the man's name "Al" and rhymes with gal and pal.
The "up" is pronounced like up only without a lot of emphasis on the "uh" part.
The emphasis is on the middle syllable.
Hence: pyoo-AL-up.
It is a Native American word.

#161043 07/29/06 01:49 AM
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This seems to settle it once and for all. The pronouciation I mean.
Very clear. What I would like to know though, and as a non american I never thought about it consciously or heard/saw it discussed : What's the definition of a Native american word? From indian origin? Aren't most of the words from imported origins?

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Before Puyallup was a city, it was the name of an Indian tribe. The Puyallup people are Native Americans whose reservation is in western Washington State's Puget Sound area.

The original name of the tribe was spwiya'laphabsh, meaning generous or welcoming. The tribe originally spoke the Puyallup Nisqually tongue of the Salishan family of languages spoken among Northwest Coast original peoples.

Washington State has lots of Native American place names because of the many tribes of Indians who resided here before the Spanish, English, French, Russians and other Europeans showed up.

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