It’s KOOO-PER... there is no “Southern” really for that name.
Unless you want to put a “-uh” at the end instead of an -er.
As in KOO-puh. That’s it. Everything coming from this idjit is weird, and he should never have been governor were it not for an idiot Repub candidate that did not support Trump’s win... and lost in a state that went for Trump to a clown like cooper, and now his AG the Marxist Shapiro.
“It’s KOOO-PER... there is no “Southern” really for that name.”
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As a North Carolinian, yeah, there kinda sorta is.
Some here would pronounce his name that approaches “Queue-per”. Not all the way there, but noticeably different from COO-per.
And I don’t even know what our soon-to-be-not Governorprefers.
He comes from the Sade school of name pronunciation