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in reply to a message by Slinky
I have never heard people pronounce Florida with two syllables and I've lived here most of my life. It has a schwa in the middle.
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Adding to the flor-duh people here. From the midwest and thats how i've always heard and how i heard it while living in Miami. I only heard flor-ih-dah from Spanish speakers mostly.
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Really? Everyone I know says "Flor-duh" and I lived there the first 18 years of my life. Grantly, plenty of people in Northern FL have Southern accents, but everyone I know form South Florida says it that way too.
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I've lived all over the US and have heard floor-duh, floor-ih-duh, and flor-uh-duh.
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The only time I never not heard it pronounced Flor-duh is on the rapper Flo-ri-da. Interesting.
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The rapper and the state are not pronounced alike. The rapper is Flo RIE-da (like, flow rider). Florida has a short i. That I have never heard anyone not pronounce.
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I know. The ri was for rye (RIE), not rih. I say Flo-ri-da for fun sometimes, but I never thought people used it formally.
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Must be a regional thing? I live in Maryland and I don't think I've heard it not two syllables. Flor-da. I had a customer at work the other day who lives half the year in Florida. I didn't recognize his zip code so I asked where he was from amd he rolled his eyes and said "Flor-DUHHH." Which while rude is the basic pronunciation I've always heard. So...you're milage may very, I suppose.
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I'm not trying to cancel your experiences with it, I simply just have no indelible history of hearing flor-duh.
Either way, I don't think that it is a remarkably attractive name. Perhaps I would think slightly better of it if I did not so heavily associate it with the state. (Which is how I feel about Virginia, as well.)
This message was edited 6/6/2014, 11:57 PM
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