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Janet Wilder wrote:

LOL! We often joke that Ohio is the land of the long vowl. They
pronounce all their cities with long vowls. Lima is L(eye)ma or
Med(eye)na. There are more.

I wonder what the pronunciation rules are about that, if there is one.
We also have Medina (Med-eye-na) and Edina (Ee-DINE-a). I am acquainted
with a couple local radio guys, one new in town, one been here for a
very long time. The younger told me once how grateful he was for a
short session with the elder statesman wherein he was told the
pronunciations of a lot of the small towns in the state that aren't said
the way one might expect them to be said. :-) (Shakopee is
SHOCK-a-pee, not SHACK-o-pee. :-)
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