AndreWhere wrote:USMstang wrote:AndreWhere wrote:I lived in Pass Christian for many years and nobody ever dropped the "N" in "Kiln" in my experience. That's just some shit people made up to troll Yankees.
So you lived in The Pass and never heard a local say The Kill?? I've actually checked the pronunciation before and its correct either way. I had never heard a rational person say KilN until Brett played at GB, seriously. And when idiots say KilN around me, I correct them. Thats tantamount to saying DeS MoineS, BiLOXi, or MetAIRie.
I think I've heard people say "Kill" but only when correcting people who said "Kiln." But if you say the locals say it that way, and you're not just trolling me because I'm a putz from ESPN in town for the Super Bowl, I will accept that into evidence.
What about Cuevas, MS? I say KWAY-vuss, basically just like a Mexican person would (cuevas = Spanish word for caves). Is there a countrified, anglophone to mangle the word, though? CUE-vass or something?
I've lived in Long Beach for all of my 51 years with exception of my college years and the 7 years in LA (you know, Lower Alabama) and everyone I know pronounces it The Kill and Cwayvus is correct also. Goshay is said in Harrison county but GoChay in Jackson county by the locals. A Gautier (GoShay) family lives in Long Beach and that's how they pronounce it. One of my co-workers is a Saucier and he'll say Sosher like Kosher but I've also heard him call his family name SoShay which would, like GoShay, be correct French.
Don't get me started on all the French names for streets and festivals, etc in Biloxi that are murdered in their pronunciations.
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