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Oregon

LVZ

(943 posts) Wed Feb 6, 2019, 10:42 PM Feb 2019

East Coast friends cannot pronounce Oregon or Nevada ??

Here's a good handy resource.

You can click on any name of a US state or major US, Canadian, Australian, or European city to hear the pronunciation.

https://xradio.us/start/time-place-pronounce.html

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East Coast friends cannot pronounce Oregon or Nevada ?? (Original Post) LVZ Feb 2019 OP

Oregon ... Oregon ... I think I've heard of it ... struggle4progress Feb 2019 #1

I can. Harker Feb 2019 #2

I just refer to the Western States for Dummies page ... Las Vegas Mixx Feb 2019 #3

When everyone else starts pronouncing New York correctly (New Yawk) I'll worry about it. Squinch Feb 2019 #4

struggle4progress

(120,556 posts)

1. Oregon ... Oregon ... I think I've heard of it ...

Reply to LVZ (Original post)

Wed Feb 6, 2019, 10:47 PM

Feb 2019

Isn't that where you fold paper into complicated shapes?

Harker

(15,262 posts)

2. I can.

Reply to LVZ (Original post)

Wed Feb 6, 2019, 10:54 PM

Feb 2019

But then, I lived in Calarada for fifty years.

Las Vegas Mixx

(315 posts)

3. I just refer to the Western States for Dummies page ...

Reply to LVZ (Original post)

Wed Feb 6, 2019, 11:45 PM

Feb 2019

Squinch

(53,346 posts)

4. When everyone else starts pronouncing New York correctly (New Yawk) I'll worry about it.

Reply to LVZ (Original post)

Thu Feb 7, 2019, 12:16 AM

Feb 2019

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