trail pronunciations

[jopamora]

Do you call the Washington & Old Dominion the W&OD or wad? Any other trails out there?

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[baiskeli]

@dasgeh 88546 wrote:

Cuss-tis or Ques-tis? I’ve heard both.

Really? Never ever heard the latter. Some people overthink things I guess.

[mstone]

@dasgeh 88546 wrote:

Ques-tis?

That ain’t right!

[consularrider]

Quo Vadis?

[baiskeli]

P.S. mstone, is your screen name pronounced EM STONE or MUH STONE? Or maybe Ms. Tone?

[cyclingfool]

@baiskeli 88553 wrote:

P.S. mstone, is your screen name pronounced EM STONE or MUH STONE? Or maybe Ms. Tone?

I believe it’s pronounced muscle tone

[americancyclo]

@n18 88515 wrote:

It’s not Wegmans, nor Walgreens, it’s Washington Nationals baseball team.

but it’s awfully close to Walgreens

[baiskeli]

@cyclingfool 88558 wrote:

I believe it’s pronounced muscle tone

Best answer!

[jnva]

@n18 88515 wrote:

It’s not Wegmans, nor Walgreens, it’s Washington Nationals baseball team.

Warshington nationals.

[cvcalhoun]

Does anyone besides me remember the days (before 1989, for you young whipper snappers) when the Clara Barton Parkway was known as the GW Parkway? Yes, the current GW Parkway was also known as the GW Parkway, even then. It made the traffic reports fairly confusing.

@lordofthemark 88470 wrote:

CCT, henceforth, always means the Capital Crescent Trail. The trail in Fairfax is now the Gerry Connolly Cross County Trail, or the GCCCT, thus solving this aspect of the TLA crisis.

[cyclingfool]

@jnva 88588 wrote:

Warshington nationals.

You must be from southwestern Pennsylvania.

[lordofthemark]

@cyclingfool 88594 wrote:

You must be from southwestern Pennsylvania.

Or from Bawlmer. They don root for Warshington, they root for dem oh’s.

[PotomacCyclist]

Do Chicago transplants call it the /waaa-dddd/? Do British transplants try to add an extra “r” in there, somewhere? Do Aussies pronounce it “weee-uhd”? Do North Carolinians say /wah-uh-oo-duh/? There are a lot of transplants around here.

[cvcalhoun]

Nope. They add an extra u, but it is silent.

@PotomacCyclist 88626 wrote:

Do British transplants try to add an extra “r” in there, somewhere?

[cyclingfool]

@PotomacCyclist 88626 wrote:

Do British transplants try to add an extra “r” in there, somewhere?

That would be Bostonians and Mainers, but it’s a very soft r.

[cyclingfool]

Monty Pyhtoners pronounce it with three M’s and a silent Q!

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