[FreedomPoster]

>>Or, for that matter, North Versailles Township.

How is that pronounced? If you’re talking Versailles, KY, the local pronunciation is ver-SAILS.

[re_nortex]

Since Western Pennsylvania may as well be Kentucky, in many ways, it too is pronounced ver-SAILS. I've been long gone from my birthplace, but when I get back to Pittsburgh on occasion, it reminds me much more of a bigger Kingsport, TN than it does of Philadelphia. And that goes for the speech patterns, which are heavily influenced by the Appalachian dialect.