New online Wisconsin map pronounces names
MADISON—Have a hard time pronouncing Oconomowoc?
How about Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest?
The State Cartographer’s Office is here to help.
It has released a new online map called Pronounce Wisconsin that allows users to click on a place name and hear how it is pronounced. More than 1,700 Wisconsin places are on the map, including counties, cities, villages and unincorporated communities.
Pronounce Wisconsin was created jointly by the cartographer’s office as well as Wisconsin Radio Network reporter Jackie Johnson. She created the MissPronouncer.com website more than six years ago that lists hard-to-pronounce names of places, elected officials, parks and other Wisconsin-specific phenomena.
The new map allows users to run a computer mouse over a place name to hear how it sounds.
Dec 18, 2012 at 5:16 p.m.
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Gra(like beginning of grass)-shut
That is how I always heard it, our schools competed in sports. Basketball games were in a metal round rafter building.
Gratiot and South Wayne merged in the 60's. At the end of the 2012 year the remaining classes (middle schools) will be housed in South Wayne.
Dec 18, 2012 at 4:57 p.m.
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Gratiot is on there - and it does pronounce it correct!
Dec 18, 2012 at 2:44 p.m.
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bassman,
I think you and I use the same annunciation for Gratiot!
Dec 18, 2012 at 1:01 p.m.
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I wish YouTube had a copy of that old insurance commercial where the lady says "Wor-sor"....
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A good website for pronunciations, especially of foreign words or proper names, is
http://www.forvo.com/
Dec 18, 2012 at 11:56 a.m.
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I am curious how they say Gratiot, a small town near South Wayne. I know how I have always pronounced it. It's not Grat- ee- ot either.
Dec 18, 2012 at 10:58 a.m.
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www.misspronouncer.com is so much better!
Dec 18, 2012 at 10:17 a.m.
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Why does Hanover sound so sexy?
Dec 18, 2012 at 9:57 a.m.
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justsayin...thanks for the link. I'm finding it arduous to use. It doesn't let you maneuver around easily, and you would have to know what county the city is in, hover, zoom in, hover, etc. Not time effective. I would like to type in a city and make it pronounce that way, like the online dictionaries.
Dec 18, 2012 at 8:58 a.m.
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Pronounce it ? What if you can't SPELL it ?
Dec 18, 2012 at 8:08 a.m.
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Click it and hear it.
http://www.sco.wisc.edu/pronounce-wiscon...
Dec 18, 2012 at 8:06 a.m.
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I think it's...www.ooops_we_forgot_it.com!
Dec 18, 2012 at 7:59 a.m.
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But of course no link is provided on the sidebar by the Gazette...
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