Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

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")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 172 | View Replies ]


To: SLB

Thanks for the clarification.


180 posted on 08/27/2006 6:36:25 AM PDT by battlegearboat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 178 | View Replies ]

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.
811 posted on 08/28/2006 2:57:10 AM PDT by jwparkerjr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 178 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson