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How do you pronounce Rio, Illinois? Better check the INBA pronunciation guide on line https://t.co/ObHeehFvRt
— IBANewsroom (@NewsroomIba) August 10, 2018
The pronunciation guide is here. Rio, by the way, is pronounced “REYE-oh.” They also got Chicago right. It’s pronounced “shi-KAW-go,” not “shi-KAH-go.”
posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 12:36 pm
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Always love it when to new radio and TV reporters to the Springfield area, do their first story on New Berlin or Athens.
Comment by Give Me A Break Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 12:38 pm
I hope Rio doesn’t have a Goethe Street.
Comment by City Zen Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 12:41 pm
and of course Genoa and Cairo.
Comment by Lt Guv Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 12:45 pm
How is Chy-Chy Rod-ri-gueez these days?
Comment by Ron Burgundy Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 12:45 pm
San Jose has always been one of my favorites. I feel like I should go to a restaurant there and order a Tor-TILL-a
Comment by Demoralized Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 12:46 pm
I thought it was “shi-KAH-ga”.
Comment by WhoKnew Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 12:46 pm
They get bonus points for getting Vienna right.
Comment by Montrose Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 12:50 pm
- Give Me A Break - Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 12:38 pm:
Always love it when to new radio and TV reporters to the Springfield area, do their first story on New Berlin or Athens.
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How are you supposed to pronounce “New Athens” in St. Clair County? My first guess would be to pronounce the Athens like you would for the Menard County community.
Comment by Leatherneck Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 12:56 pm
They have Bolivia wrong. It’s pronounced Ba-liv-vee. The “A” at the end is silent. My aunt from Chicago was lost for hours when she can to visit and we told her to turn at “balivee.” She finally called and said she only saw a sign for Bolivia, not “Balivee.”
Comment by A Jack Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 12:58 pm
Leatherneck I think you are correct.
Comment by Give Me A Break Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 1:01 pm
- Give Me A Break - Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 12:38 pm:
Always love it when to new radio and TV reporters to the Springfield area, do their first story on New Berlin or Athens
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Followed by a news story in Girard, Illiopolis, and then a breaking news story from Sadorus or Fithian. Then a sports story on the latest Teutopolis basketball state tournament run, but the new reporter is unaware of the nickname “T-Town” for the community.
And in the Peoria area, when a new reporter gets the first news stories from Trivoli (Peoria Co.), Maquon (Knox Co.), Minonk (Woodford Co.), or Manito (Mason Co.). And gets taken to school with “Lewistown” (pronouncing it “Lewis-Town” instead of “Lewis-TON”).
Comment by Leatherneck Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 1:04 pm
My ex is a native of New Berlin….. she said they changed the pronunciation around the time of the Great War. Any chance it will ever revert back to the “right” way?
Comment by Vote Quimby Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 1:07 pm
I liked the old “bur-BONE-is” for Bourbonnaise
Schuyler trips up newbies
Comment by Langhorne Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 1:08 pm
===I liked the old “bur-BONE-is”===
Township is still pronounced that way.
Comment by Rich Miller Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 1:09 pm
I recall a Chicago TV news reader yammering once about Pah-TAY Philip.
Definitely a faux pas, with the foie gras.
Comment by wordslinger Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 1:12 pm
They don’t have DeKalb right, either. It’s DE Kalb, not duh kalb
Comment by M Python Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 1:30 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBoddkkztlg
Comment by Demoralized Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 1:35 pm
Will never forget taking a member of a governor’s cabinet on swing through the Mt. Vernon area.
When I explained how they pronounce the little town of Sandoval down there, I thought the person was going to fall out of the car laughing.
Comment by Give Me A Break Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 1:36 pm
===I liked the old “bur-BONE-is”===
Township is still pronounced that way.===
I’m an old, but a friend who grew up there claims that all the old timers used Bur-BONE-es and that you could tell where someone was from in town (which side of the tracks thing) by how they pronounced. Cannot confirm
Comment by Joe Bidenopolous Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 1:50 pm
Chi Kah Go and Duh Kalb. hearing that this is wrong makes me believe that I’m not from birth from around, here even though I am.
Comment by Amalia Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 1:52 pm
Pleased to see they got the pronunciation of Matteson correct. It never fails to amaze me the number of people who not only get it wrong, but persist in arguing that they’re right and it doesn’t matter how one-time Gov. Joel Aldrich Matteson (the village’s namesake) pronounced it.
Comment by Gregory Tejeda Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 2:28 pm
Lee Roy not luh- Roy. At least it’s always been that way to this graduate.
Comment by Anon221 Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 3:19 pm
==I liked the old “bur-BONE-is”==
I never heard of Burbonnais until they had a Top 40 station in the 1980s: WBUS 99.9 FM The Bus Bradley-Burbonnais. And even then it was the “bur-bone-AY.”
Comment by City Zen Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 4:07 pm
–They don’t have DeKalb right, either. It’s DE Kalb, not duh kalb–
From my experience, the natives are split on that one.
Comment by wordslinger Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 4:10 pm
Maybe they should charge a fine for mispronouncing the name of the city like Joliet does.
Comment by Mama Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 5:14 pm
Also they keep pronouncing Madigan as “Stalin”.
Comment by Anonymous Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 6:26 pm
Ask one of them how to say Beaucoup and DuBois.
Comment by Deputy Registrar Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 9:21 pm
I believe the locals pronounce the “Daviess” in Jo Daviess County as “Davis” not “Daveez”
Comment by Bourbon Street Monday, Aug 13, 18 @ 10:00 pm
Folks around Teutopolis lean a little more towards tee-TOHP-uh-lis.
But mostly they just say T-town.
Comment by Lynn S. Tuesday, Aug 14, 18 @ 12:56 am