{"id":20289,"date":"2021-06-16T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20289"},"modified":"2021-06-17T17:02:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:02:25","slug":"speak-maine-like-you-live-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/speak-maine-like-you-live-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak Maine Like You Live Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=summerguide_2021&amp;pageNumber=114&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The real reason you can&#8217;t get there from here.<\/p>\n<p>By Bruce Pratt<\/p>\n<p>Pronouncing Maine place names by relying on rules from away leads to confusion when asking for directions to Calais instead of \u201cCallus,\u201d Vienna instead of \u201cVyenna,\u201d Madrid instead of \u201cMAD-drid,\u201d Carmel instead of \u201cCAR-mul,\u201d or by omitting the H in Amherst. Other names non-Mainers stumble over include Eggemoggin, Machias, and Eustis\u2014sometimes pronounced \u201cUS-tis\u201d by tourists.\u00a0 Is it Moscow or \u201cMossco\u201d? \u201cAND-aver\u201d or Andover? If Corea began with a K, it wouldn\u2019t become \u201cCorey-ah,\u201d or \u201cCorayuh.\u201d Detroit is often stressed on the first syllable as in the old Bobby Bare hit.<\/p>\n<p>At Sugarloaf, I heard a woman say she\u2019d flown into \u201cBanger,\u201d prompting my buddy to say (which, of course, he would never, ever say now): \u201cBang her? I barely know her.\u201d We might blame Roger Miller, but nothing brands one From Away more than that mangling of the Queen City\u2019s name, unless it\u2019s a relative of mine reading Kenneth Roberts to some young children and pronouncing Norridgewock as Nor Ridge A Walk.\u00a0 Is it LU-bec or Lu-BEC or Lu-Bec? Who hasn\u2019t heard the first two letters in Chebeague pronounced as if it were Chewbacca? And unlike the woman in the folk song \u201cCorrine, Corrina,\u201d it\u2019s Corinna\u2014short I\u2014here.<\/p>\n<p><em>See the full story\u00a0in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/speak_maine.jpg\" alt=\"speak_maine\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/speak_maine.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/speak_maine-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/speak_maine-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/speak_maine-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/speak_maine-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/speak_maine-620x326.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you ask for directions, we\u2019ve got you covered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20292,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289\/revisions\/20292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}