<p>actually, i believe either way is correct. but the most common pronunciation, especially in boston, rhymes with manual.</p>
<p>LOL I Know the Boston accent with the “R”. I don’t care to argue about the pronunciation any longer, my family’s from Beacon Hill for over 100 years so I’m pretty confident in myself. Maybe both are right, but every Bostonian I’ve ever met pronounces it rhyming with manual.</p>
<p>My point, guys, is that the correct name is fannel. People have lost that. I probably mis-stated that newer people say fan-u-el because I’m much older than you. Words change over time. Peter would have said his name fannel.</p>
<p>[Faneuil</a> Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faneuil_Hall]Faneuil”>Faneuil Hall - Wikipedia) … first sentence… as said in post #23 there are two ways to say it, one is just a newer way to say it.</p>
<p>Pronunciations are regardless — I’ve grown up in the immediate Boston area with a full family in Boston who calls in Fann-u-el Hall… If anyone suggests otherwise I can’t really call them all… But knowing people who attend BU, BC, and having family here… and living right outside Boston… I would say it’s Fann’u’el.</p>
<p>Why are you arguing? The point is that historically, both in Peter Fanueil’s actual era and up til recently, it was Fannel. You can say it anyway you want but history is important.</p>
<p>i always pronounce it fan-weel personally</p>
<p>this discussion is getting heated and it’s already hot out. i might have to fan y’all.</p>
<p>Kind of very funny.</p>
<p>I actually heard tourists saying “Pah the cah in Hahvahd Yahd” to each other yesterday. </p>
<p>BTW, the movie with the best rendered Boston accents is Gone, Baby, Gone. The only good accents in The Departed are homeboys Wahlberg & Damon with DiCaprio pulling it off because he’s so good. Most of the rest are awful.</p>