View Poll Results: How do you pronounce "Oregon"?

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    Go on, Quin. Set up a new thread with a poll for all the different ways people pronounce that.
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    Can-ada


    Our turn for manifest destiny!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raistlin View Post
    The latter is professed to be the correct pronunciation by a decidedly insane person who is objectively wrong.
    They may not be insane. Maybe they just had a stroke or something.

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    I say it with three syllables, but the second syllable is pronounced so softly it may as well be two. If you're making a big deal out of the second syllable, you're doing it wrong.
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    Jinx you are absolutely smurfing insane. Never change.

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    Slight emphasis on the first syllable but the other two are stressed about equally.

    I grew up in the Pac Northwest. This is how it is said.

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    Always pronounce the opposite of what Loony BoB says.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tifa's Boobs View Post
    I say it with three syllables, but the second syllable is pronounced so softly it may as well be two. If you're making a big deal out of the second syllable, you're doing it wrong.
    really? i say it or-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-gon

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    it irks the trout out me when people say "spo-cane" xD

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shorty View Post
    it irks the trout out me when people say "spo-cane" xD
    * Shorty arrives in Edinburgh
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    <Loony_BoB> SO HOW WAS SPO CANE AIRPORT???
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    She will get back on that plane and never return.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Adequate View Post
    Always pronounce the opposite of what Loony BoB says.
    Shockingly, BoB is not far off this one. At least he has the correct number of syllables, which is more than can be said for some people who were raised too far away from civilization to learn their own country's states.

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    Don't worry, if I said it out loud you guys would probably think I was saying chopsticks or something.
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    eer-eh-gan

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raistlin View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Adequate View Post
    Always pronounce the opposite of what Loony BoB says.
    Shockingly, BoB is not far off this one. At least he has the correct number of syllables, which is more than can be said for some people who were raised too far away from civilization to learn their own country's states.
    It's not my fault I was raised in Oz.

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    I say Spo-cane .

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