Voting for governor

[Alpo]

Will you vote for someone to be governor of your state, if they couldn't pronounce the name of the state.

 

Next to California there is a state that's full of gambling and hookers. Nevada.

 

Just about everybody in the country pronounces that Ne-vah-da.

 

But the people that live there say Ne-va-da, with that first A sounding like the A in hat.

 

I'm watching this TV show and this woman said she was officially throwing her hat into the ring. She was running for governor of Ne-vah-da.

 

Now I'm sure that the reason the actress pronounced it that way is because she's from California and don't know no better. But it just caused me to wonder.

 

If somebody said they were running for governor of Orry-gone, or Warshington, or maybe Idyhoe. Suppose the locals would vote for them? I owe

[Subdeacon Joe]

Um.... looks like she pronounced it just fine.

[Creeker, SASS #43022]

As a Nevada resident - I guarantee NO!

 

There are very few things that raise the hackles of a Nevada resident than saying the name of our state incorrectly.

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

Maybe she should come to Missouri or Iowa where it’s pronounced Ne-VAY-duh. 

[Creeker, SASS #43022]

31 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Maybe she should come to Missouri or Iowa where it’s pronounced Ne-VAY-duh. 

It is NOT pronounced that way anywhere and if you persist - we will have to start going with

Meh ZUR ah  (or Misery)

and I o WAY...

 

 

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

7 minutes ago, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:

It is NOT pronounced that way anywhere and if you persist - we will have to start going with

Meh ZUR ah  (or Misery)

and I o WAY...

 

 

Knock yourself out. I live in Kansas, where there are places like El-dor-AY-doh and Ar-KAN-sas-city! 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Creeker, SASS #43022]

19 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Knock yourself out. I live in Kansas, where there are places like El-dor-AY-doh and Ar-KAN-sas-city! 

Ahh, the state of KAN saw.

Always figured if Arkansas was Ar KAN saw

 

Then Kansas must be pronounced the same.

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

3 minutes ago, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:

Ahh, the state of KAN saw.

Always figured if Arkansas was Ar KAN saw

 

Then Kansas must be pronounced the same.

You’d be wrong. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

48 minutes ago, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:

Ahh, the state of KAN saw.

Always figured if Arkansas was Ar KAN saw

 

Then Kansas must be pronounced the same.

 

 

Blame the French for having several different spellings for Arkansas, as well as the silent S in French.  

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

12 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

Hell no!

 

Where's the adventure in that?

[Cypress Sun]

49 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Hell no!

 

Where's the adventure in that?

 

Just because everyone says it's a bad idea doesn't mean it won't be fun!

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

12 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Blame the French for having several different spellings for Arkansas, as well as the silent S in French.  
 

The circumflex actually replaces many former s’s. Hôpital, hôtel, forêt, côte.

[Subdeacon Joe]

13 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

 

Any action or inaction is behavior.

[Texas Maverick]

14 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

Nope,

 

 

TM

[Matthew Duncan]

LBJ was in Dunlap after the Palm Sunday tornado’s had devastated the area.  He said he was in Goshen and pronounced it as “Gosheen”.   What twerp I thought, didn’t bother to ask where he was at or how to pronounce it.

[Eyesa Horg]

How bout Sniffy, he generally doesn't even know what state he's in! Mentally and geographically.

[J-BAR #18287]

If you move from Ne-VAH-da to Mizzoorah and settle just west of El Do-RAY-do Springs, you better call your new town Ne-VAY-da or you will be tagged as an EMMY-grunt.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

23 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

Just because everyone says it's a bad idea doesn't mean it won't be fun!

The fact that everyone says it's a bad idea nearly guarantees that it WILL be fun.  

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I’m not going to get upset about that. Now if someone said New Joisey….

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

I’m not going to get upset about that. Now if someone said New Joisey….

You'd know that they were from New Yawk.

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

2 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

You'd know that they were from New Yawk.

Or New Joisey…