The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #107674   Message #2238336
Posted By: Bee
17-Jan-08 - 08:57 AM
Thread Name: MacPherson [how to pronounce?]
Subject: RE: MacPherson [how to pronounce?]
CBC National announcers have been taught to pronounce French place names as the French (or at least, the Quebecois) would pronounce them. It is a source of amusement to us, here in the Maritimes, when we hear them gamely trying to pronounce names like 'Musquodoboit' and 'Quispamsis' as if they were French. Musquodoboit, and I think Quispamsis as well, are Mi'qMa'q names, and Musquodoboit is pronounced locally as 'Musk-a-dob-et' - certainly not 'Muska-da-bwah'.