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Mispronouncing a street or town name is a quick way to tell a local from an outsider. Here are the trickiest place names in America for you to tackle.
paczki (in Polish settlement areas, esp. Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin) – a jelly doughnut; pop (North-Central and West) – a soft drink, carbonated soda; soda (all the Northeast and parts of Wisconsin) – soft drink; Troll (North-Central) – people who reside in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan
Given Michigan's deep history and various cities, villages and streets big and small, there are names and pronunciations that, to this day, still trip many people up.
Speakers around the Great Lakes began to pronounce the short a sound, /æ/ as in TRAP, as more of a diphthong and with a higher starting point in the mouth, causing the same word to sound more like "tray-ap" or "tray-up"; Labov et al. assume that this began by the middle of the 19th century. [23]
The dialect region "Midland" was first labeled in the 1890s, [13] but only first defined (tentatively) by Hans Kurath in 1949 as centered on central Pennsylvania and expanding westward and southward to include most of Pennsylvania, and the Appalachian regions of Kentucky, Tennessee, and all of West Virginia.
Lake Erie laps away in northern Ohio and is the 11th largest lake in the world. Here are some facts about the Great Lakes. Lake Erie. Average depth: 62 feet. Maximum depth: 210 feet. Size: 9,910 ...
Paulding County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio.As of the 2020 census, the population was about 18,806. [1] Its county seat is Paulding. [2] The county was created in 1820 and later organized in 1839. [3]
The lake now holds 64.3 billion US gallons (243,000,000 m 3) of water, covering 17,088 acres (69.15 km 2) over a length of 17 miles (27 km) with a width of 1.6 miles (2.6 km) at the widest and 70 miles (110 km) of shoreline, with a maximum depth of 35 feet (11 m). The lake has served to provide a water supply for the Shenango and Beaver valleys ...