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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 290721, member: 66&quot;]Sometimes how the &quot;natives&quot; say it has nothing to do with the correct pronunciation.&nbsp; I was raised in Louisville Ky.&nbsp; Now that city was named after King Louis (I forget which number but I believe it was XIV) of France.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now his name was pronouced Lou - ee.&nbsp; So the name of the city should be Lou-ee-ville.&nbsp; For the longest time though the &quot;native&quot; pronouced it Lou-a-ville.&nbsp; Then along came a popular local evening news personallity who single handedly changed the pronouciation.&nbsp; After several years of exposure to her accented speech, the natives of the city now pronouce it Lou-uh-vulle.&nbsp; (At least we never prounouced it Lou-is-ville.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how we managed to avoid that.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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