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Should any pronunciation prevail or have prevailed (I suppose one has among locals), I hope its users will be gracious toward and tolerant of speakers using other pronunciations, unlike many Nevadans are toward speakers (including schoolchildren) who do not pronounce Nevada like the romanticized silver-miners purportedly did.
I have the impression that some Coloradans have become as intolerant as the aforementioned Nevadans of the old pronunciation of their state's name.
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Kiwis and West Islanders talking about who has the purer accent is like little kids in a mud puddle dicussing who's cleaner.
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...don't get us started on the pavlova thing.
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Ooooo, didn't know you were hot for ballerinas, et! ;0)
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pronounce Nevada like the romanticized silver-miners purportedly did.
I have the impression that some Coloradans have become as intolerant as the aforementioned Nevadans of the old pronunciation of their state's name. ...which is what?
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The pronunciation issue is short A versus broad A, with the short A pronunciation of the a after v in Nevada widely and dogmatically held as the correct one within Nevada. According to Wikipedia, “In 2005, the state issued a specialty license plate via the Nevada Commission on Tourism that lists the name of the state as Nevăda to help with the pronunciation problem.”
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Here Colorado native “mapguy” states, Colorado: we natives pronounce it call-uh-RAD-o (the accented syllable rhymes with "bad"). We figure anyone who says call-uh-ROD-o or call-uh-ROD-der must be either a tourist or a short-time resident (when they pronounce the accented syllable as if it rhymes with "pod"). Despite what you may hear on local newscasts, we're call-uh-RAD-o-uns (five syllables), not call-uh-ROD-uns (four syllables).
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How unfortunate that they choose to look down their noses at pronunciations which are closer to the original words than the way they pronounce them. Both come from Spanish, and are pronounced in Spanish as koe-loe-rah-tho and nay-bah-tha I've never looked into it, but in Spanish they might be called "Coloradenses" and "Nevadeños". If anyone knows for sure, please jump in! :0)
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Here Colorado native “mapguy” states, Colorado: we natives pronounce it call-uh-RAD-o (the accented syllable rhymes with "bad"). We figure anyone who says call-uh-ROD-o or call-uh-ROD-der must be either a tourist or a short-time resident (when they pronounce the accented syllable as if it rhymes with "pod"). Despite what you may hear on local newscasts, we're call-uh-RAD-o-uns (five syllables), not call-uh-ROD-uns (four syllables). Do I sumrise from this that Coloradans pronounce "pod" as pahd? It's very confusing for us Aussies who pronounce short o's as o's and not as a's. In call-uh-ROD-o for us ROD would rhyme with odd. So you mean you say it as cawl-uh-radduns? Where radd rhymes with bad.
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How unfortunate that they choose to look down their noses at pronunciations which are closer to the original words than the way they pronounce them. Both come from Spanish, and are pronounced in Spanish as koe-loe-rah-tho and nay-bah-tha I've never looked into it, but in Spanish they might be called "Coloradenses" and "Nevadeños". If anyone knows for sure, please jump in! :0) That's a hard 'th' as in 'the' not a soft one as in 'thin' of course. The 'v' is pronounced somewhere between an English 'b' and 'v' - it's not quite either really.
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