Bush mispronunces Nevada in first presidential visit

[pf99]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2003/nov/26/112610050.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Nevada memo to George Bush: When making a first presidential visit to a state, use the right pronounciation of its name.

Bush, in Las Vegas on Tuesday, repeatedly said Ne-vah-da. To properly pronounce Nevada, the middle syllable should rhyme with gamble.

Mispronouncing the state's name "sets people's teeth on edge," said state Archivist Guy Rocha. "He's the president, and he ought to get it right. Nothing personal."

State Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, said the mispronunciation shows Bush, who won the state in the 2000 election, doesn't care much about the state.

"They take such pains to orchestrate these trips and to make sure everything is politically correct," she said. "You would think the name of the state would be a simple piece of that."

Assemblyman Lynn Hettrick, R-Gardnerville, said the president ought to pronounce Nevada correctly, but Bush's message was more important.

"There are a lot more important things to worry about than that," he said. "The visit itself is far more important. Clearly some people will make hay out of it, and that's OK. That's the way it works."

[La_Serpiente]

1. This is even funnier

since it is not even from the onion.

[LSparkle]

2. "I've come to your state ...

to visit the Ne-vah-da Nu-keel-er test site." (Nails on blackboard.)

[DK666]

3. El Crapola.

Stories Gone now.....

[DK666]

4. Flipper boy is just

Taking his cue from Arnie...

[DjTj]

8. it's not as bad as

cull-i-furn-ya

[caledesi]

5. Memo to Bush*: When you go to Arkansas, don't ask what

the AR is doing in front of Kansas. It's a state.

LOL!

[NoPasaran]

6. Say What?

the middle syllable should rhyme with gamble

Ne-vamble-da

[Hawkeye-X]

7. Correct pronounction

Pronunciation: n&-'va-d&, -'vä-

Humor on Nevada's pronounication: http://www.geocities.com/jiboegle/column12Sep00.html

Hawkeye-X

[sweettater]

9. I caught that also

why didn't they just say the short a sound? I think because most people don't know what the short sound of a says? shameful. :P a as in apple.

[Sperk]

10. I still do not understand how you can mispronounce Nevada?

How could anyone in this country not know how to pronounce Nevada? Smirky MUST be on drugs, even he's not THAT stupid.

[maxanne]

11. oh Sperk

sure he is!!

[Sapphocrat]

14. Easterners...

...say Ne-VAH-da. Westerners don't. (Which is another clue that the Toxic Texan is merely toxic, and no Texan.)

There's no excuse, however. If one is visiting New York City, one had better know it's HOW-stun Street, not HEW-stun Street. When in Rome...

[hlthe2b]

12. Dupe... but continue the fun!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=780832

[lumpy]

13. Oregonians

get upset when people mention Or-eh-gone instead of Or-e-gun.
If you want to fit in pronounce it Lose-e-ana.

[newyawker99]

15. This is a dupe.

I am locking this thread.


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