How to say 'Mwahkee' (and hundreds of other Wisconsin cities)
Very clever site for those of us who are peeved whenever people just can't get the name of our beloved Wisconsinhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif cities, towns and counties correct.
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MissPronouncer.com bills itself as "A halfway decent resource for learning to pronounce stuff in Wisconsin" and offers up audio snippets on how to pronounce the 190 cities, 400 villages, 1,260 towns and much more around the state.
Unfortunately, she doesn't get into the accepted colloqial pronunciations, like "Trivers" and "Mwahkee". But she does an admirable job with tough French & Native American names like Wauwatosa, Fond du Lac and Oconomowoc.
There's also a host of trivial facts about our wonderful state as well.
Update: Apparently you may have some trouble getting to the site because they are getting an inordinate amount of traffic after being posted to the AP yesterday. Here's a blurb from today's Green Bay Press-Gazette.





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