pronunciations

If you live in Illinois, you already know how to pronounce this city's name.

I could say this word, one hundred million times to myself, and then when I have to use it in conversation, I'd mess it up.

According to OnlyInYourState, if you can accurately pronounce these Illinois town names--you've lived in Illinois too long. Let's find out.

When our country was young and ever-expanding, we looked to international cities for inspiration in naming our new cities and towns. Sometimes, we just added a "New" in front of an old-world city name, like New Amsterdam, New York, and  New Orleans. Sometimes, we just took the same name, stuck it on our map...then began mispronouncing it. Here in Illinois, we've got several places like t

Yesterday in this space, I asked if you speak with a Rockford accent (click here if you missed it). I gave you a bunch of examples of the way we here in Rockford tend to pronounce things. We like to think of ourselves as accent-less folk, but according to the results of a study a few years ago by Harvard University, we're wrong...