Colorado
Roots
(or, why I say things the way I do)
This page is intended to provide some context behind the pronunciations on my Colorado toponymy page. When I originally created that page in about 2000, I billed it as a resource to help people "say it like a Colorado native", and I expressed a desire to pronounce things "the way the locals do". But lately I've come to realize that we've reached a point in Colorado history where I can't really put it that way anymore. Today there are "natives" who pronounce things differently than other natives, and there are "locals" who disagree with other locals on the correct pronunciation of a local placename. So today I think it's really more a question of, "How deep are your Colorado roots?"
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