Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2-6 May 2011 (1916-1920)
Boomslang:
As someone who was born in Oregon and lives there currently, we pronounce Oregon correctly by definition, 'cause it's our prerogative to decide which pronunciation is the right one.
And, since we're nice enough not to criticize anyone else's pronunciation of their own state (Although, seriously, Missouri?), I'd really appreciate it if you return the favor.
Especially since you're wrong.
:psyduck:
DSL:
Hey everyone. Wish Jeph a Happy National Cartoonists Day. To answer Steve, this is a thing that is real.
Carl-E:
OK, now I gotta know. Never having met an Oregonian(?) in person, how the hell do youse guys pronounciate it?
People look at me weird 'cause I have an odd "or" pronunciation for this part of the world, it's an open "a" sound when it's in the first syllable. For example, ahranges come from Flahrida, and the space above my eyebrows is my fahrhead. When it's not the first syllable, or when it's the only syllable, I do the stadard "ore" sound (so "for" is pronounced like "four").
So, is it Ahr-e-gon, or Or-e-gon? Or is it the two-syllable Or'gon, pronounced like the church instrument?
rje:
But but...I wanted to go to Portland before it was a thing! Since I was eighteen! That was...thirteen years ago. But that doesn't make me a hipster, right? ....Right? *crickets*
Actually, I just wanted to go because I read that a bunch of comic creators lived there so it was supposedly this comic industry mecca and that sounded like the most awesome thing. It just sounded really artsy, laid back and kind of geeky. But it doesn't sound that way anymore :( I'm too poor for it now, just like Seattle.
(...jesus christ that was thirteen years ago. I just made myself sad. ._. )
mike837go:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 05 May 2011, 10:36 ---OK, [how] youse guys pronounciate it?
So, is it Ahr-e-gon, or Or-e-gon? Or is it the two-syllable Or'gon, pronounced like the church instrument?
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So, spoiling for a fight, are we?
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