Check the dictionary first
So desperate are the media to paint George W. Bush as stupid, they forget first to check the dictionary. In what must be one of the biggest non-stories I’ve ever seen printed, various newspapers are reporting that Bush misprounced “Nevada” while visiting Las Vegas.
Bush, in Las Vegas on Tuesday, repeatedly said Ne-vah-da. To properly pronounce Nevada, the middle syllable should rhyme with gamble.
Ya sure about that? I hear that pesky dictionary likes both “ne-vaa-duh” and neh-vah-duh.” (By the way, that’s an AP story I quoted from. I think we all know what a pathetic news organization that is. They can’t even get their headlines right.)
But I’ll tell you this: there is one, and only one, pronunciation of “Illinois”—and it does not involve “noise” at the end. When MC Hammer visited Champaign in 1991 and did not know that, he lost all credibility in my 10 year-old mind. It was not the parachute pants that did it; it was the mispronunciation.