‘Nevada’: Say What?
I touched on this briefly last October when I wrote about Nevada Day: There is an actual official pronunciation of “Nevada” and if you get it wrong, heaven help you!
I’ve apparently always pronounced it correctly, as have most people I’ve known. I do admit it is a little grating to hear it mispronounced but I’ve always figured it was a regional thing.
Yesterday, anchorman Brian Williams really hit someone’s nerve by saying it incorrectly:
The anchor mispronounced the state’s name as “Nuh-VAH-duh,” prompting a flurry of phone calls and e-mails from angry Nevadans who demanded he utter it as they do, with …read more
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