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#25637 04/06/01 12:27 AM
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Oregon - organ

Organs come in three kinds: the harmonica, the kind the monkey trainer cranks by hand ,and the kind that fills an enclosure.


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The schwa is optional - "organ" is quite acceptable. But we'll run you out of the state if you say Oree-Gone.




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I can't stand it, she said, her lips twitching with repressed laughter:

Could people who live in Oregon be called Oreganisms?
OrGonads? What say, Geoff? [oh boy I'm asking for it now e]


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The schwa is optional - "organ" is quite acceptable. But we'll run you out of the state if you say Oree-Gone

Thanks for that. I would never have said Oree-Gone, but it's nice to know that my schwa would be tolerated. I wonder if there are any USns on the board who cold guess the correct pronunciation of Gisborne, the town where my wife grew up. (Give it your best shot, Jackie)


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who cold guess the correct pronunciation of Gisborne, the town where my wife grew up. (Give it your best shot, Jackie)

Here's a cold guess, Sweet Max: omnascient?




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Even we would not pronounce "Gisborne" as "omnascient", but, yes.


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The words to describe Gisborne: the name of one of Robin Hood's enemies, Sir Guy of Gisborne. A French sounding name, but I'll bet it was not pronounced the French way, the city having been named after Sir William Gisborne.


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Aksherly, Bill if you be a Nu Englandah, you might just stand a chance of gettin' it right.


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Could people who live in Oregon be called Oreganisms?
OrGonads? What say, Geoff? [oh boy I'm asking for it now e]


Well, Ms Grand and Glorious Poobah, them folks in Eye-O-Way call it Aura-Gone. Now that it's really upper Californica, they're right, the aura IS gone! Most folks say Ory-gun. The name may well derive from the French word, Ouragan, meaning hurricane. Lotsa French names hereabouts, thanks to the French fur trappers of days of yore. Lotsa wind, too, especially around Salem, the capital, when the legislature's in session.


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the French fur trappers of days of yore
The days of yore are gone in Oregon.


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