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Related: About this forumEast Coast friends cannot pronounce Oregon or Nevada ??
Here's a good handy resource.
You can click on any name of a US state or major US, Canadian, Australian, or European city to hear the pronunciation.
https://xradio.us/start/time-place-pronounce.html
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East Coast friends cannot pronounce Oregon or Nevada ?? (Original Post)
LVZ
Feb 2019
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struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)1. Oregon ... Oregon ... I think I've heard of it ...
Isn't that where you fold paper into complicated shapes?
But then, I lived in Calarada for fifty years.
Las Vegas Mixx
(259 posts)3. I just refer to the Western States for Dummies page ...
Squinch
(50,774 posts)4. When everyone else starts pronouncing New York correctly (New Yawk) I'll worry about it.