Vanity - How do you pronounce Bakken ?

[IronJack]

I usually pronounce it “muhn-ee.”

[Mark17]

You have to find a North Dakotan-English dictionary.

I am from North Dakota, and I pronounce it bock-an, where bock rhymes with sock. I would assume it refers to the Bakken oil fields.

[shineon]

Thanks - you win the bacon.

[billhilly]

It is spelled success.

[shineon]

No moe shiboleths...

[OneWingedShark]

If it's Japanese then this video explains the double consonant.
The way I learned in my college Japanese class was to use a soft/melded-semipause-hard sound. So, Bakken would sound almost like bah-Ken, where the soft ah would meld into a soft ack-sound.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Release the Bakken !

[Minutemantek]

To make it easy, we use to call it - Williston Basin Oil

[abclily]

Bah kahn

[dangus]

Bakken grease?

[James Thomas]

Bach-en, emphasis on Bach

[Mark17]

Thanks - you win the bacon.

Thank you. I think they raise bacon there too. I know when they are not working on the oil rigs, they are raising cain.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I don’t see that.

[Rebelbase]

"I spell'em like I say'em. 'Bacon'--BAKN"

[Revolting cat!]

The same way you say Bakker (Jim & Tammy) or Bakkersfield!

[trebb]

What about “scion”. ?

Use it in a sentence - When I first saw the northern lights, I thought someone had set the scion fire. Sigh on, oh ship of State.

[Vendome]

Baw-Ken

Bah-Ken

[BfloGuy]

I usually pronounce it “muhn-ee.”

Damn. Thought I'd get this one. Heh.

[snippy_about_it]

I know someone with this last name and it is pronounced Bach-in. As in the composer Bach.