How do YOU pronouce Zion?

[stefan]

if you want to hear the pronunciation you can hear it on this dictionary site:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zion

or maybe clicking this link will work:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-b...ion01.wav=Zion

[accadacca]

Wait, so it isn't Zions.

[stefan]

Wait, so it isn't Zions.

it would be nice if there were more than one, and everyone didn't know about one of them

[millsclimber]

it would be nice if there were more than one, and everyone didn't know about one of them

I second the notion!

Wait I think I did see another Zions. I think it was either by Amurican Fark or Spanish Fark there in Utar County. Maybe not though. It might have been closer to Hurican.



(never understood the pronunciation of "Hurricane" UT).

[stefan]

Wait I think I did see another Zions. I think it was either by Amurican Fark or Spanish Fark there in Utar County. Maybe not though. It might have been closer to Hurican.

(never understood the pronunciation of "Hurricane" UT).

always reminds me of saying crick instead of creek. though it kinda reminds me of the way the british pronounce 'hurricane,' since they put their emPHAsis on a different sylLAble. (it's amusing how certain words in various parts of england are pronounced differently ... like paa-sta vs. paw-sta for pasta. i enjoy these comparisons with a good friend of mine from england.)

i came across this database awhile back, which has some interesting history. here's the story behind the naming of the town and cliffband -- hurricane:

from:
http://history.utah.gov/apps/markers...?markerid=1633

In 1863 settlers on the upper Virgin River whose lands were being washed away made preliminary surveys for irrigating and occupying these lands. Erastus Snow, David H. Cannon and Nephi Johnson came down the hill over an old Indian trail, with a heavy buggy drawn by mules, using ropes to keep it from tipping. A whirlwind took the top off the buggy. Erastus Snow exclaimed, "Well, that was a hurricane. We'll name this Hurricane Hill." The fault, bench and town were named from this event.

erastus snow came from vermont. perhaps, with a new england dialect, he pronounced hurricane in a particular way which lead to the current pronunciation. no idea, just conjecture.

[JP]

I would like to hear what you guys think.

Ask the New Yorker how he pronounces it