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")
To: SLB
Thanks for the clarification.
To: SLB
I've never heard it pronounced "Ver-sails". Is this just a local adaptation? We have several roads in our area that are not pronounced anywhere near like they are spelled. One road is Bearss Ave., named after a pioneering Hillsborough County family. It is pronounced "Beerce" like the drink ending in c.
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