I've been keeping up with my alma mater's football team via their Facebook page: Miami Warriors Football Fan Page
I noticed something when I first "liked" the page and have kept waiting for someone to fix it.
I guess I shouldn't be hard on whoever started the page and wrote the description. They probably went to school there, just as I did...and you know how bad my own writing are is.
November 28, 2010
Grate Ejucashun
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Apparently they didn't have Mrs. Seitz as an English teacher or they would have done a better job of proof-reading. I bristle when anyone pronounces Miami like the town in Florida and I sure don't like seeing the incorrect spelling.
Sharon, please clue me in. How is Miami TX pronounced? I have never heard it pronounced, only read it in text. Now you've got me curious.
I don't know if sis subscribes to comments, so I'll tell you.
It's "My-Am-I", like "You're stepping in cow crap!" "My, am I?"
Just kidding; it's actually "My-am-uh".
I pronounce it like the city in Florida around *some* people in Miami just to piss 'em off. They're awfully touchy about it. (surprised to see Sharon feel that way) Some of the Amarillo newscasters/weathermen-women say it wrong; sometimes they're corrected on-air by the other talking heads who have been around longer.
It's a typical small town and many people from there gripe about the gossip and small-minded ways, but I've lived in several small towns and they're all alike. I'm glad I grew up there, even though I felt like I didn't fit in, esp. growing up around rich rancher and farmer's kids and my dad worked in the oil field.
Still, my sisters and I left our "mark" on the school and there weren't many other siblings growing up there that accomplished as much, won as many awards. No brag, just fact.
Both of my sisters and I were editors of the h.s. paper. I had that Mrs. Seitz as a journalism teacher, but never had her in English...prob. should have!
It's funny how pronunciation can be such a touch subject. I went to a performance once and Ira Glass from NPR was saying that he'd gotten all kinds of grief for pronouncing Concord, NH like the Concord grape. Locally we pronounce it quickly, as if it were all one syllable, and without the long "O" sound. More like "Con-curd".
Yep, I've heard arguments break out over how to pronounce "Colorado" and "Oregon".
I used to work w/ guys from Woodward, Oklahoma and started pronouncing it like they did, "Wood-urd", but they told me that's only how locals said it, not outsiders. Guess that's like New Orleans - "Nawlins".
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