Why is tucson pronounced as tucson

Some are a mixture; e. Within my lifetime there have been at least three popular pronunciations of Los Angeles, all of them completely unSpanish. It's pronounced one way if it's a city in Texas Hugh'stun and quite differently House'tun if it's a street in Manhattan, NY. Named for different folks who pronounced their names differently, I suspect.

Actually it's Vie Anna, probably because there's another town, "Anna" just down the hard road. You are right on! Been there for the irrigation festival -- parade and all. Strangely enough, it is on the Olympic peninsula which is known for the outrageous amounts of rainfall in the nearby rain forests. Seems that there is a so-called sunbelt along the eastern edge of the peninsula, and it stretches north to include Victoria, BC.

Do you know how to pronounce Puyallup? Katrina, so you have been in my neck of the woods then, eh? I don't live in Los Gatos, but there are many names around here that can make a person swoon. How about Yerba Buena?

The '-on' rhymes with "bun" or "barn"? And, by the way, is there anything else that we do, but you don't pronunciation-wise? No, definitely not.

This sound doesn't seem to exist in most US dialects. If you try saying 'on' but with the lips more rounded and the tongue slightly further forward, you might get somewhere close to it. Or try a French '-on', but with the 'n' less nasal. There might be a sound clip in Igor Merfert's archive illustrating the difference. How do you sound the 'o' in your first name? I thought the short 'o' also existed in Singhalese, or is it more of an 'oh' sound?

Gosh, I wouldn't know how to set about answering that. I guess I'll have to try to think of it as being the 'a' in 'what'.

In no way could it rhyme with "bun. The accent shifts to the second syllable and the 'o' becomes long when referring to the residents as Tucsonans.

Not sure about this last -- in my idiolect, at least, your descriptions of the embrochure are backwards -- I differentiate the second vowel sound in Tucson from that in the word 'on' by lessening the rounding or the lips and moving the tongue further back. It bears no resemblance to a denasalized French '-on,' even in my execrable French.

Earl Grey. This is a bit of a sweeping generalization, but I think it's not far from the truth. In Sommaville, a Cambridge resident. Local speakers argue about its derivation: Some say it's from "Bahnyahd," a derisive term for Hahvihd Yahd; others argue it comes from the old MBTA cah bahns just outside the Squayuh the bahns went away when the Red Line was extended to Sommaville. My first name is pronounced with a short 'o'; and yes, Sinhalese has a short 'o' sound, too, but I wouldn't want to embarrass myself by trying to show you how it is represented using IPA.

So I better not try. Whatever the origin, it's pronounced "TOOsahn" because that's the ::way it's pronounced. I had never seen the spelling alongside the pronunciation. I had always thought that your city was called [la dZal ], but then again, I'm from the northeast--Spanish place names are not my forte.

An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. Still sounds like 'poo-al-up' to me emphasis on the 'al' , and I do hear it often, living only a short distance north of it. All of the vowels? For a start, I don't think Australian English has the vowel in American "barn", though we might come close if we exaggerated the first "r" - the one we normally don't pronounce - in "barn-again Christians".

I spent much of my growing up time in Ben Lomond nothing funny about pronunciation there , near Felton and so forth. Remember Soquel? Long after I moved away from the area, I met a girl named Soquel, and asked if she'd been born there.

She was amazed, as no-one had ever made the connection. Several of my family still live in Santa Cruz county. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. Not the same thing at all, oh slayer of albatrosses. I don't tell you how to pronounce "StrayShots," you don't tell me how to pronounce the name of the little town whence my mail is delivered. Tucson - why "too-san"? Podibanda Kuruppu. Reply to author. Report message as abuse.

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