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Hey, I get that the pronunciations of "old world" names often suffer when affixed to locales "across the pond." My saddest example is here in Maine where a city with the truly melodious name of Calais is pronounced "Callous." We also have a Vienna, pronounced "Vye-enna." And for more than 40 years, I have caused many Mainers to giggle and/or blush when I tell them I went to college in "Naw-FUK," Virginia (pairing the city and the state sorta makes it a tad more salacious sounding.
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Maybe I should've been even MORE explicit on the first syllable : gnaw-FUK
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Sorry, gang , but IMHO, the proper pronunciation is naw-FUK. I grew up in Portsmouth (sadly too often pronounced porch-MUFF) and graduated from ODU. But I'm also a huge fan of the BBC, Masterpiece Theater and Merchant-Ivory films. There was no Duke of NOR-folk or of nor-FUK, but there were scores of Dukes and Duchesses of naw-FUK!
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Amazing! His backstory is everything! Such vision, spirit and energy! Would we could package it and feed it to the region's lethargic, myopic and lackluster leaders!
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Hi, folks! I'm originally from Portsmouth and am an ODU graduate. Emigrated Downeast many, many years ago but my roots remain deep in Tidewater, Hampton Roads, Coastal Virginia or whatever nom-de-chaos the region is calling itself these days.
