Yo, Oregon peeps!

[TrudyCampbell]

How do you pronounce Willamette? As in the Willamette Valley? Because a wine guy just told us it's one way that is much different from how I've been saying it. monkeybabe

[monkeybabe]

Will -am- it, am like "I am going"

[TrudyCampbell]

Ah! So I was wrong. I was saying Will-a-met

[monkeybabe]

I pronounced it, will awm it when I moved here and was corrected. Hard.

[claralou]

true story: My H and I have been together for 8 years, and his father STILL says Will-a-met. This would be NBD (because really, how often should that come up in conversation?), except every time we're in Boston and he introduces me to someone, he says "this is my DIL and she's from the Will-a-met Valley, where they have the great wine". Eight years of incorrect pronounciation :-)

[shevacc]

DH is from Oregon (Medford/Ashland area) and it driven him crazy when people pronounce the state like it rhymes with octagon. "It's a state, not a shape!"

(he pronounces the -on as in wagon)

[kistjenn]

In WI we pronounce Oregon like or-gone.  And probably everywhere else in the US pronounces it right way....... or-gen.  It took me years to finally pronounce it the correct way.

[monkeybabe]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mMKj6iYLzU I made this for yous.

[TrudyCampbell]

Hehehehe I LOVE that video monkeybabe! I giggled out loud. 

[TrudyCampbell]

Mar 14, 2013 20:06:47 GMT -5 kistjenn said:

In WI we pronounce Oregon like or-gone.  And probably everywhere else in the US pronounces it right way....... or-gen.  It took me years to finally pronounce it the correct way.

I say it like Ore-a-gone. I think that's probably wrong. Or maybe Ore-a-gin. 

[monkeybabe]

Most people here pronounce is Ore-a-gin or Ore-a-gun.

[kistjenn]

Mar 14, 2013 21:26:04 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Mar 14, 2013 20:06:47 GMT -5 kistjenn said:

In WI we pronounce Oregon like or-gone.  And probably everywhere else in the US pronounces it right way....... or-gen.  It took me years to finally pronounce it the correct way.

I say it like Ore-a-gone. I think that's probably wrong. Or maybe Ore-a-gin. 

Well than yes, I gather you pronounce it wrong, just like I did.  monkeybabe is right, most pronounce the way she states.  People poked fun at me forever, but it just goes with the territory of where your from.

[Deleted]

Willamette, dammit.

[TrudyCampbell]

Mar 14, 2013 21:35:30 GMT -5 @thadsrad said:

Willamette, dammit.

My new motto!

[jaime183]

Mar 14, 2013 21:35:30 GMT -5 @thadsrad said:

Willamette, dammit.

that's how i teach people to say it too!