The Dock
Bad Takes; Even Worse Picks
eh, a lot of the unusual pronunciations stem from some combination ofIt appears my southern ohio high school education really has failed me in pronunciation for a wide majority.
a) the ancestry/founding (e.g. “ROO-shee”, which traces to the French),
b) improperly-anglicized conventions of European-settled towns (see: “Ver-SAILS”)
c) towns that fit the actual phonetic rule in English pertaining to distribution of consonants (e.g. Massillon, where if there was a second ‘n’ it would have the oft mispronunciation error of an “ON” to overcome it following the double L.)
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Except, of course, Lancaster… which a) astutely does NOT follow the anglicized phonetic key on the distribution of syllables and intonation and b) is also not pronounced the way that the city in southeastern PA (its namesake) is.
It is, tragically (?), a city that gets its pronunciation from redneck vernacular English.