Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Pronunciation key required?

I read this excerpt from a local news site, warning of the potential for flooding in Western Washington following some heavy rainfall amounts we've been having around here (highly surprising for November in Seattle, I know):

"Over a dozen rivers in Western Washington are now under a flood warning, meaning flooding is imminent or already occurring. Included in the flood warning: the Satsop, Nooksack, Skagit, Stillaguamish, Skykomish, Snohomish, Tolt, Snoqualmie, Cedar, Carbon, Puyallup, Nisqually, Cowlitz, and Chehalis Rivers."

Anyone who is able to pronounce each name in that list — and who is not familiar with the area — immediately earns my respect and admiration.

3 comments:

Sus said...

Does it count if I'm only familiar with Snoqualime...(though I still can't actually spell it right anyways, which means I can pronounce it right, but not spell it right...hmm, maybe I"m not familiar enough with that one to count it either then huh?

Alli said...

I think I'm good on Cedar and Carbon. Ha.

David said...

Huh?!