Banknote from a bank I cannot pronounce! My first obsolete note...

$5 note Ypsilanti/Michigan Jan. 7th. 1837

 

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Nice.
Ypsilanti is about 40 minutes from me, it's near Ann Arbor.

 

Nice!

Is it pronounced "yip-silanti"?

 

French spelling of Native American names.

 

A town nearby to me is Port Hueneme. A tourist going through saw the name and stopped at a fast food restaurant to ask "How do you pronounce the name of this place?" The answer came back..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ready?................................................................................................................................................................"Burger King".

 

Cool banknote PMAN, that's were I was born 60 year ago.

~Doug H.

 

I went to college in Ypsi! We disparagingly referred to some of the less-educated parts of town as Ypsitucky.

 

Actually, it was named after a Greek military hero.

 

Makes more sense to me. Here in Germany quite a few know the name because not too long ago Andrea Ypsilanti had plans to become Hessian governor. (Was not successful but she still is a member of the state parliament.) Then again, the German way of pronouncing a Greek name may very well be different from the English pronunciation.

Christian