Pronunciation Guide

[Glenn]

Ever since I learned that Hurricane is pronounced "Her-uh-kin", I've wanted to make sure I know the correct ways to say names. Heck, just last week, I still was pronouncing "Kolob" as "Ka-lob" (short o) instead of "KO-LOB" (long O).

So, is there a good pronunciation guide around? Like, how do you pronounce "Behunin"? :-)

[Scott P]

Behunin is easy to pronounce. Bee-Who-Nin.

The funny ones are seeing non-locals trying to pronounce Tooele, Oquirrh, and even Moroni, Nephi, and Lehi.

Common non-local pronunciation:

Tool-ee
O-queer
More-ohn-ee
Neff-ee
Leh-hee

[tallsteve]

Every out of stater wants to pronounce Zion like they say it in the Matrix films- zi AHN. Just stop it already! Worse may be that even in-staters call it Zions. As far as I know there is only one park.

[oldno7]

ba-hen-in


if ya do local dialect...

never heard scotts version, locally

[Scott P]

ba-hen-in

if ya do local dialect...

never heard scotts version, locally

Interesting. Since you're a local, I'd go with that one for the canyon. I knew a person with the last name Behunin who pronounced it the other way.

[Glenn]

Behunin is easy to pronounce. Bee-Who-Nin.

The funny ones are seeing non-locals trying to pronounce Tooele, Oquirrh, and even Moroni, Nephi, and Lehi.

Common non-local pronunciation:

Tool-ee
O-queer
More-ohn-ee
Neff-ee
Leh-hee

I guess the LDS Pronunciation Guide (https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/pronunciation?lang=eng) should be included with all Utah travel literature.

[Glenn]

Every out of stater wants to pronounce Zion like they say it in the Matrix films- zi AHN. Just stop it already! Worse may be that even in-staters call it Zions. As far as I know there is only one park.

Zions Bank sure doesn't help with that...

[erial]

Shinob Kibe

[Sandstone Addiction]

Lots of folks mispronounce this one:

Escalante, it's pronounced es'-ca-lant (like "ant" with an L in front)


NOT es-ca-lon'-tay


Couple more:

Monticello, pronounced cell-o, not like TJ's place in VA which is chell-o.

San Rafael Swell, Rafael is pronounced ra-fell' with only 2 syllables, not raw-fi(or fay)-ell.

[Scott P]

http://www.exploreutah.com/GettingAround/SaltLakeCity.mp3

[Iceaxe]

ba-hen-in


if ya do local dialect...

never heard scotts version, locally

Scott's version is the only version I've heard from locals.

[Glenn]

Man, that mp3 file is wierd. It's offset entirely into then negative sample range and is really, really, REALLY faint.
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I can't attach an mp3 here, but have sent ExploreUtah.com a revised file. Hopefully, they'll update it.