from chit to chinola
Some common word beginning with a "ch-" I heard suddenly pronounced with an "sh-" on the news yesterday. Thought it was the quirk of one lone anchor, but then someone did it again on NPR this...
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I hear the same thing with Chicago-Shicago (or is the latter the way it's supposed to be pronounced?)
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Yes.For some reason there seems to be nobody at the BBC who can pronounce 'Michigan' correctly (i.e., as though it were 'Mishigan'). They're supposed to have a pronunciation department.
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Chalk one up to the French in Canada for having converted Tshinuk into a word pronounced shinook; viz:goojaChinookan in particular has no other known relatives despite having a few subdialects, e.g....
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Never heard Chicago with a hard "ch" except by some obviously-accented Greeks/Russian/etc.Never heard Michigan hard "ch"ed by anyone, BBC included.The only word currently in "play" that I've noticed...
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Interesting, I've never heard anyone say chinook with the hard ch. Ain't life a kick in the head?
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Quote:Never heard Chicago with a hard "ch" except by some obviously-accented Greeks/Russian/etc.Or Latinos.In Chicago's southside, at least, it's pronounced "shi-CA-gah"
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