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To: Sender

CNN is pronouncing the road as "Ver-sails". Ist that the way locals call it or is it "Ver-sigh"?


172 posted on 08/27/2006 6:29:33 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: battlegearboat
CNN is pronouncing the road as "Ver-sails". Ist that the way locals call it or is it "Ver-sigh"?

CNN is correct.

Ver-sigh? That must be the way those pansy frogs talk.

178 posted on 08/27/2006 6:35:13 AM PDT by SLB (Wyoming's Alan Simpson on the Washington press - "all you get is controversy, crap and confusion")
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To: battlegearboat
I know that the town of Versailles, Indiana, is pronounced "Ver-sails". I suspect the same is true of Versailles Road.
187 posted on 08/27/2006 6:46:52 AM PDT by Christopher Lincoln
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To: battlegearboat

"Ver-sails" would be correct.


188 posted on 08/27/2006 6:48:14 AM PDT by kddid (Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States.)
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To: battlegearboat

In Ky it is "ver-sales", not like the French.


190 posted on 08/27/2006 6:50:17 AM PDT by Sender (“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”)
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To: battlegearboat
Locals = Ver-sails....

Frogs.. = Ver-sigh....

191 posted on 08/27/2006 6:50:52 AM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (All of the answers remain available; Wisdom is gained by asking the right questions!)
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To: battlegearboat

Kentuckians pronounce it Ver sales.


200 posted on 08/27/2006 6:57:43 AM PDT by brothers4thID (Being lectured by Ted Kennedy on ethics is not unlike being lectured on dating protocol by Ted Bundy)
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To: battlegearboat

I heard the local reporter say "Ver-sails"


208 posted on 08/27/2006 7:04:28 AM PDT by EnquiringMind
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