Blogging on location from Youngstown, Ohio, where I'm in town for the Center for Working-Class Studies conference at the end of this week. Driving across Ohio inspired my list of...
TOP TEN OHIO CITIES WHOSE PRONUNCIATION MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
10. Lima (pronounced like the bean, not the city in Peru)
9. Vienna (first syllable rhymes with "eye")
8. Bellefontaine ("bell fountain")
7. Lowellville ("low-ville")
6. Newark (often comes out in one syllable)
5. Toledo (okay, the pronunciation might surprise you if you're from Spain!)
4. Bucyrus (rhymes with "view virus")
3. East Palestine (pal-ah-STEEN)
2. Medina (ma-DYE-na)
1. Pataskala (surprising no matter how you say it)
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