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runaroundsue
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 Posted: 05/01/06 - 19:01 Post subject: you know you're a Wisconsinite when you can pronounce a few
of these.
Lake Butte des Morts
Lac Courte Oreilles
Chequamegon forest
Kaukauna
Shawano
Oconomowoc
Waukesha
Weyauwega
Rio
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mrbill
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Posted: 05/01/06 - 19:12 Post subject:
I've always gone by way of Sheboygan...
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gretriever
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Posted: 05/01/06 - 20:09 Post subject:
I knew a girl in college who came from Wonewoc, and she couldn't pronounce it right (one-ee-walk). So she just reversed it and called it Cowenow (cow-ee-now). 
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gretriever
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Posted: 05/01/06 - 20:12 Post subject:
And for the non-Wisconsinners here, Butte des Morts is French for Butte of the Dead - it has nothing to do with butts. 
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shelflifers
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Posted: 05/01/06 - 21:35 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | And for the non-Wisconsinners here, Butte des Morts is French for Butte of the Dead - it has nothing to do with butts. |
I spent a wonderful year living in the BUTTE...good times...good times!
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andydp
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Posted: 05/02/06 - 16:47 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | I knew a girl in college who came from Wonewoc, and she couldn't pronounce it right (one-ee-walk). So she just reversed it and called it Cowenow (cow-ee-now). |
Well, at least she did not live in Regina, SK(?) Decorum prevents me from posting the pronunciation, but it would have made a paralell plot for a Seinfeld episode.
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TreKay
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Posted: 05/03/06 - 07:24 Post subject:
| mrbill wrote: | | I've always gone by way of Sheboygan... |
You mean Cheboygan!! Er uhmm wait a minute you are talking about Wisconsin not Michigan, oh sorry my bad!! 
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 05/03/06 - 12:04 Post subject:
| TreKay wrote: | | mrbill wrote: | | I've always gone by way of Sheboygan... |
You mean Cheboygan!! Er uhmm wait a minute you are talking about Wisconsin not Michigan, oh sorry my bad!! |
and I think that one is pronounced a itsy bitsy differently isn't it Shay-boy-gan versus shi' boygan ???
I have to admit that I knew Rio wasn't R ee o, but I thought it was R eyeO
and I guess it's Reye O 
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 05/03/06 - 12:14 Post subject:
We can't forget Mukwonago and Pewaukee!
Oh, and Verona. That's a toughy for the Canucks.
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Posted: 05/03/06 - 12:32 Post subject:
| runaroundsue wrote: | | TreKay wrote: | | mrbill wrote: | | I've always gone by way of Sheboygan... |
You mean Cheboygan!! Er uhmm wait a minute you are talking about Wisconsin not Michigan, oh sorry my bad!! |
and I think that one is pronounced a itsy bitsy differently isn't it Shay-boy-gan versus shi' boygan ???
I have to admit that I knew Rio wasn't R ee o, but I thought it was R eyeO
and I guess it's Reye O |
I believe you may be right, I should know my step-dad was born there!!
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