[meteorite-list] Pronouncing Willamette and other meteorite names

Michael Murray mmurray at montrose.net
Wed Apr 23 00:07:01 EDT 2008


If you are from Oregon this is probably no big surprise... According  
to one of the native Willamette residents, Willamette is not  
pronounced will-a-mette, at least not by her anyway, and not  
according to the the dictionary either.  Totally unbeknownst to  
hayseeds like myself, it is actually pronounced wi-lam-it, or you can  
write that with the ligature ae in place of the a.  My  
confession...Besides having a difficult time with Allende for some  
time, I had the name Willamette wrong too.  This makes me wonder what  
other meteorites names I am mispronouncing.

Okay, I give up,  who can help me with Berduc?

Mike in CO



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