The Higgins in Pygmalion, referred to in some of the byplay leading up to the wager in My Fair Lady.
Just because someone has dialect as an academic specialty doesn’t mean they’ll approve of “diversity” in all cases. And some dialects (Cockney, Ocker, and those certain Joisey accents, Tom Kean’s among them) are sharp sticks in my ear. (One of the prettiest women I ever knew had that one problem – dead ringer for Fran Drescher in the dark, pro and con.
I live in Ohio and everybody here pronounces it LIE-ma.
LIE-mah is in Ohio. LEE-mah is in Peru.
Speaking of South America…The Montevideo in South America is Mon-tah-vah-DAY-oh. The one in Minnesota is Mon-tah-VID-ee-oh (the last part pronounced like “video” as in TV).
The original post almost reminds me of the Yanny v. Laurel thing a couple years back lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X_WvGAhMlQ
(It’s Laurel by the way…)
Same with Wisconsin (or as everyone outside of Wisconsin seems to pronounce it: WES-consin. Grrrr): we also specialize in those Indian place names. Milwaukee alone has several suburbs: Mukwonago, Oconomowoc, Mequon, Waukesha, Pewaukee, Wauwatosa, Kenosha lol…
Then you have Shawano, Kaukauna, Weyauwega, Ashwaubenon… Totally ridiculous.