Cras wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
markg wrote:
These names are worth having just to hear Americans trying to say them. I think my favourite is Eden-Bro.
They'd be more likely to say Edinburgh with a hard G, surely? Like Pittsburgh.
They have plenty of town names we butcher as well, so it's a two-way street.
It's partly a two-way street. There's no excuse possible for Arkansas.
Especially as it's down the road from Kansas.
7 hours from Kansas City to Little Rock. Not really down the road.
Interestingly, Arkansas City in Kansas is pronounced with the S.
markg wrote:
I'd say that on the whole American spelling of place names tend to be more phonetic, though. Just because they weren't named at a time when everyone was talking in what almost amounts to a different language.
What, like Tuscon, Maryland, Van Nuys? Des Moines and Des Plaines?