<p>There are a whole bunch of colleges I don't know how to pronounce, so I'm going to fix that before I embarrass myself. Here's a list:</p>
<p>Lehigh
Bowdoin
Brandeis
Swarthmore
Bucknell
Muhlenberg
Wharton (Penn)
McDonough (Georgetown)
Yeshiva
Elon
Occidental
SUNY
Geneseo
Oswego
Urbana-Champaign</p>
<p>Please give the phonetic spellings of these so I can stop being clueless. Feel free to add to the list if you want.</p>
<p>I'll start with a couple:</p>
<p>LEE-high
BOW (as in bowtie)-din
BRAN-dice
Buck-NELL (many don't get that one)
Yesh-EE-va
SUNY (SOO-nee) Geneseo I've heard it both EE-o and AY-o
Os-WEE-go (pretty sure)</p>
<p>I have a question:</p>
<p>Wellesley? Is it pronounced Wells-lee?</p>
<p>Wells-LEE, yes.</p>
<p>Oss-i-den-tal</p>
<p>Eeee-lon</p>
<p>War-ton</p>
<p>Sa-warth-more</p>
<p>SUNY actually stands for State University of New York, it's an acronym.</p>
<p>As an added note, many people pronounce "Swarthmore" as "SWATH-more" -- a dialectal thing. It's normally pronounced with "war" that has an 's' in front, a soft 'th' after, and 'more' at the end.</p>
<p>Urbana-Champaign= er-banna shampayne</p>
<p>So far:
Lehigh=LEE-high
Bowdoin= BOW (as in bowtie)-din
Brandeis= BRAN-dice
Swarthmore= swore-th-more
Bucknell=Buck-NELL
Muhlenberg= myoo-len-burg
Wharton (Penn)=War-ton
McDonough (Georgetown)= ???
Yeshiva=Yesh-EE-va
Elon=Eeee-lon
Occidental=Oss-i-den-tal
SUNY= (SOO-nee)
Geneseo=jenneh-see-yo/jenneh-sayo
Oswego=Os-WEE-go
Urbana-Champaign=er-banna shampayne
Wellesley=Wells-LEE</p>
<p>Another big one!</p>
<p>Amherst is not "AM-herst" but rather, "AM-erst." In other words, the "h" is silent.</p>
<p>I knew a girl whose last name was McDonough... "Mc-Donna"... don't know if that's the way the b-school pronounces it.</p>
<p>How about pronunciation for Goizueta, Emory's b-school?</p>
<p>Actually, I've always heard "Wellesley" pronounced as "WELLS-lee," with the stress on the first syllable.</p>
<p>Isn't "Occidental" (both the word and the college) pronounced more like Ox-i-dental?</p>
<p>I second Mc-Donna, perhaps though better as Mc-Dunna?</p>
<p>Occidental does sound like Ox-i-DEN-tal.
McDonough (Georgetown) is Mac-DUN-ah
Muhlenberg - MULE-in-berg</p>
<p>Oswego is actually pronounced aw-SWEE-go.</p>
<p>and Urbana Champaign, er-BAH-naw and the word Champaign.
People there call it Chambana (sham-BAH-naw) :D</p>
<p>I've heard Goizueta as goy-Zweh-tuh.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Isn't "Occidental" (both the word and the college) pronounced more like Ox-i-dental?<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Correct. And the school's common nickname around LA is "Oxy." I don't think I've ever heard anyone say it as "Oss-i-den-tal."</p>
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and Urbana Champaign, er-BAH-naw
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<p>I'm pretty sure the first 'a' is pronounced /</p>
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and Urbana Champaign, er-BAH-naw and the word Champaign.
People there call it Chambana (sham-BAH-naw)
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As someone who has an Illinois accent, I'd say it:</p>
<p>Ur-banna Sham-payne. </p>
<p>I don't quite get the "naw". I've never heard anyone finish the name like that.</p>
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I'm pretty sure the first 'a' is pronounced /</p>
<p>People I know who've lived there say "a" as in "apple."</p>
<p>When I say BAH it is like the a in "apple."</p>
<p>Like when sheep say Bah.</p>
<p>And you're right it's not quite "naw" more like when you say "nah" to mean no.
My older brother went to UIUC; he says its like er-b</p>
<p>^^ when doing informal spellings, the 'a' is generally the /</p>