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SYRAKEN

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I live in Texas now, but i'm from Tacoma, Washington! 02/18/2016 04:15 PM CST

I do miss the rains...

BADGOPHER

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Re: I live in Texas now, but i'm from Tacoma, Washington! 02/18/2016 05:47 PM CST

It rained for 6 months straight last year. You'll get your rain.

Unless you're in west/southwest Texas.

SYRAKEN

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Re: I live in Texas now, but i'm from Tacoma, Washington! 02/19/2016 01:29 AM CST

Houston! Had some sick thunder and lightning a couple weeks ago though, like the hand of God punched the earth.. XD thought a plane crashed tbh. .. still didn't rain very much that night.

LADYSABLE

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Re: I live in Texas now, but i'm from Tacoma, Washington! 02/20/2016 04:03 PM CST

Puyallup here. I'll get extra-drowned on your behalf. :D

~Aislynn

BLUEFROG99

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Re: I live in Texas now, but i'm from Tacoma, Washington! 02/20/2016 05:28 PM CST

Ooh, do you enjoy visitors trying to pronounce it? I miss that about Washington. That and Sequim.

SYRAKEN

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Re: I live in Texas now, but i'm from Tacoma, Washington! 02/20/2016 08:30 PM CST

I enjoy showing people the old Puyallup Fair commercial.

>>You can do it at a trot you can do it at a gallop you can do it real slow so your heart won't pal-pa-tate, juuust don't be late. Do the Puyallup!

When responding to something, make sure you have the facts. Otherwise you are just wasting time. -sig-

MAUSUMI

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Re: I live in Texas now, but i'm from Tacoma, Washington! 02/23/2016 05:10 PM CST

I'm not sure I like the new slogan... Do the Puyallup was just amusing.

LADYSABLE

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Re: I live in Texas now, but i'm from Tacoma, Washington! 02/24/2016 10:26 PM CST

<Ooh, do you enjoy visitors trying to pronounce it? I miss that about Washington. That and Sequim.>

Gods, yes... Most of my job involves working with folks down in California.. They absolutely CANNOT pronounce it correctly.

"Errr. Poooo-yallup?"

~Aislynn

GODKING

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Re: I live in Texas now, but i'm from Tacoma, Washington! 02/25/2016 08:13 PM CST

>>Most of my job involves working with folks down in California.. They absolutely CANNOT pronounce it correctly.<<

Well, I used to live in California, and most people from other states could never properly pronounce those towns and counties that had Hispanic names.

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DBABIASH

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Re: I live in Texas now, but i'm from Tacoma, Washington! 02/25/2016 08:23 PM CST

Yeah, you definitely get that everywhere. I'm originally from Wisconsin, and we use a lot of Native American city names, from several different tribes no less. They did a bit during the last Super Bowl the Packers were in where they went around asking random people in Texas to pronounce them. Yeah, it was amusing, but I didn't fault anyone, there are some very unusual names.

So, now I live in Illinois, and what gets me here is that they have a number of towns named after European cities, but have entirely 'muricanized' the pronunciation. Versailles, for example, has become Vare-sales.

PRIMEQ

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Re: I live in Texas now, but i'm from Tacoma, Washington! 02/25/2016 09:09 PM CST

Yeah so, I used to live in Wales...

Try pronouncing Llandudno. The double-L is actually a sound we don't have in English. It was fun times.

- Navesi

PROCTORS2

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Re: I live in Texas now, but i'm from Tacoma, Washington! 02/25/2016 09:38 PM CST

>So, now I live in Illinois, and what gets me here is that they have a number of towns named after European cities, but have entirely 'muricanized' the pronunciation. Versailles, for example, has become Vare-sales.

Same here in Missouri.
New Madrid (Mad-rid instead of mah-Drid)
Cairo (care-O)
Illinois (Illy-noise)
Courtois Creek (Coat-away creek)

I could go on and on.

FROSC02

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Re: I live in Texas now, but i'm from Tacoma, Washington! 02/29/2016 12:24 PM CST

>Yeah so, I used to live in Wales...
>Try pronouncing Llandudno. The double-L is actually a sound we don't have in English. It was fun times.

And if you can get manage that, try the expert level:
http://imgur.com/RCkhPeM

CLEARLEAF

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Re: I live in Texas now, but i'm from Tacoma, Washington! 07/16/2016 03:42 PM CDT

><Ooh, do you enjoy visitors trying to pronounce it? I miss that about Washington. That and Sequim.>

I have to admit I like to intentionally mispronounce it as rhymes-with-Sequin, just because it makes me imagine everyone there walking around in glittery evening wear. Having been through the town a few times, it's even more amusing. And though I've been in Washington for 20 years (I'm a few months from officially having lived here longer than my home state of MN, yeesh), I still fumble with Puyallup.

Ok fine thread necro, but this folder doesn't get much love anyways.

DragonRealms · Players from the West Coast