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ConnieTerwilliger · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject: Pronunciation help

Hi there - normally the end client doesn't care how I pronounce things (as long as the phone number is right!), but since I don't like to offer up something less than perfect - please help me with the Colorado town of Arvada - I'm just training myself to cosistently say Nevada (like VAT) instead of Nevahda...and I think at one point I knew how this was pronounced, but I'm coming off 4 back to back sessions and have a ton of these names to finish up...and an MCA-I meeting to go to tonight and I think my brain just short-circuited...

R-Vay-dah? (like Ray?)
R-vah-dah (like the snooty pronunciation of Nevada)
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Bailey · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject:

According to Wikipedia...
Arvada
It appears to sound more like R-va-dah.
Va sounds like the a in bad.
The a in da is a reduced vowel.
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ConnieTerwilliger · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:47 pm Post subject:

Didn't know that it had pronunciations - good tip...tanks!
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Craig · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:49 pm Post subject:

What Bailey said...

Merriam-Webster has an audio pronunciation if you like.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arvada

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Bruce · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:23 am Post subject:

Merriam-Webster is a great source, IF they have the audio version which is hit and miss. Wikipedia's pronunciation guide is kind of weird too.

I have a long distance service that charges just 3 cents a minute so I'm happy to call the Chamber of Commerce or Mayor's office in oddly named towns.

I had to read the name of a port city in India, that I'd never heard of, for a television show. (for some reason the producer put the onus of correct pronunciations totally on me!) I tried calling a couple of public office kind of numbers in that city, but it was late at night over there and I didn't get an answer. So I called the Indian embassy in Washington. They were quite helpful.

If I'm ever wrong I can always say "Hey! I asked the Embassy!"

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