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Bush mispronunces [SIC!!!!] Nevada in first presidential visit
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 11/26/03 | Staff

Posted on 11/26/2003 11:16:01 AM PST by TastyManatees

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:45:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Nevada memo to George Bush: When making a first presidential visit to a state, use the right pronounciation of its name.

Bush, in Las Vegas on Tuesday, repeatedly said Ne-vah-da. To properly pronounce Nevada, the middle syllable should rhyme with gamble.


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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: California; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: bush; chronicle; kahleefornya; mispronounce; nevaaaaaaaaaaaaaada; nevada; nevaduh; nevambleda; schadenfreude; sfchronschadenfreude
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To: TastyManatees
"Nevada or nevado" means 'snow-covered, snowy, white as snow' in spanish, according to Cassell's spanish dictionary.

If Cassell's is correct, then our president's pronounciation is correct and these critics don't know what they are talking about.
21 posted on 11/26/2003 11:23:30 AM PST by pax_et_bonum
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To: TastyManatees
He's the president, and he ought to get it right.

I don't like brocolli. I'm the President of the United States. I shouldn't have to eat brocolli.

22 posted on 11/26/2003 11:23:34 AM PST by RightWhale (Close your tag lines)
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To: TastyManatees
W pronounced it like a Texan, as God intended English to be pronounced.

So9

23 posted on 11/26/2003 11:23:41 AM PST by Servant of the 9 (Effing the Ineffable.)
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To: TastyManatees
So he used the Spanish pronunciation. Big freakin' deal.

What a morbid waste of the AP wire this was.

24 posted on 11/26/2003 11:24:04 AM PST by RichInOC (...this just in...the press is still stupid.)
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To: T Minus Four
Ne-vamble-da?

To-maaa-to
To-mah-to

25 posted on 11/26/2003 11:24:26 AM PST by Snardius
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To: TastyManatees
Well, at least he didn't pronounce it "Nevader" as JFK would have done.

We got called "Oklahomer" by that same former president who wasn't very popular in Oklahomer.
26 posted on 11/26/2003 11:24:35 AM PST by Ole Okie (Go Sooners!)
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To: TastyManatees
Good catch.

And it's ridiculous to suggest that "Nev-ah-da" is wrong. I am certain there are people who pronounce it that way. I am even willing to bet that if I had the time and resources I could go back and find audio clips of various other national politicians pronouncing it that way.

The (alleged) fact that hearing it pronounced that way "sets people's teeth on edge" [well, some people who are Nevadans, anyway] doesn't mean anything one way or the other. (Some) people who live in San Francisco hate hearing the nickname "Frisco" but that doesn't make "Frisco" somehow illegitimate or "incorrect".

27 posted on 11/26/2003 11:24:38 AM PST by Dr. Frank fan
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To: TastyManatees
The Dems have finally found their issue.
28 posted on 11/26/2003 11:24:38 AM PST by Always Right
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To: TastyManatees
Isn't "Nevada" a Spanish word, which would mean it's properly pronounced Ne Vah Da?

My aunt and uncle lived in Nevahda for several years in the 60s, and always pronounced it Nevahda.

Anyway, quick! Take a picture of the web page before the ignoramuses catch their typo.
29 posted on 11/26/2003 11:25:20 AM PST by hellinahandcart (okay, I have a freeping problem)
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To: JennysCool
Pingie-dingie
30 posted on 11/26/2003 11:25:32 AM PST by Allegra
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To: TastyManatees
Does this mean he shouldn't call Schwarzenegger, Ahnold, the Govn'r of Cala-for-ni-a? : )
31 posted on 11/26/2003 11:25:53 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: T Minus Four
Bush, in Las Vegas on Tuesday, repeatedly said Ne-vah-da. To properly pronounce Nevada, the middle syllable should rhyme with gamble.

WHAT?

I know, this makes no sense at all. How do you possibly rhyme the middle syllable with a two syllable word?

32 posted on 11/26/2003 11:26:02 AM PST by proust
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To: TastyManatees
So vote for Dean because he'll say the wrong things right?
33 posted on 11/26/2003 11:26:22 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: honeygrl
I call it Ne-vah-duh too. I didn't know there was an alternate pronunciation. To pronounce it the Nevada way you have to have adenoid trouble and a sinus infection, or be Teddy Kennedy So9
34 posted on 11/26/2003 11:26:42 AM PST by Servant of the 9 (Real Texicans; we're grizzled, we're grumpy and we're armed)
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To: glock rocks
Ich bin ein donut. duh.

Bwaaha!

35 posted on 11/26/2003 11:26:54 AM PST by hellinahandcart (okay, I have a freeping problem)
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To: StatesEnemy
I can't figure it out either, and I have been there many times. I have NEVER heard anyone pronounce it so that it rhymes with GAMBLE. I hear it two ways all of the time, but neither of them rhyme with gamble! I am lost here! This is just more stupidity from the Socialists. (you pronounce socialist so that it rhymes with communist)
36 posted on 11/26/2003 11:27:28 AM PST by ladyinred (The Left have blood on their hands!)
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To: TastyManatees
Does this mean that, all this time, I should have been saying "Lass Vegas?"
37 posted on 11/26/2003 11:27:34 AM PST by Paul Atreides (Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
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To: TastyManatees
State Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, said the mispronunciation shows Bush, who won the state in the 2000 election, doesn't care much about the state.

NO, it shows that Bush is from Texas, which is how we pronounce it. Since there are more of us than there are of them, they are the ones "mispronuncing" it.

38 posted on 11/26/2003 11:28:10 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy
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To: honeygrl
You are correct ... Nevada is a Spanish word. If I remember correctly, it means "snowy". Please correct me if I am wrong.

Like the "a" in Colo-rah-do ...

g

39 posted on 11/26/2003 11:28:27 AM PST by Geezerette (... but young at heart!-)
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To: TastyManatees
Bush to AP: "Kiss my ahs."
40 posted on 11/26/2003 11:28:51 AM PST by kevao
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