How do you pronounce Des Moines, Washington?
A few weeks ago, I interviewed a guy named DJ Taylor for a story I was working on.I immediately noticed that he didn’t pronounce the ‘s’ at the end of Moines.?” I asked, emphasizing the ‘s.’ “That’s what I was told.”
I know that the s’s are silent in Des Moines, Iowa. But when I moved to Seattle in 2005, to work as a reporter for KIRO Newsradio, I had to quickly learn a lot of unfamiliar names on the map. Early on, I did a live report about something happening in Sequim, pronouncing it ‘seh-quee-im.’ After approximately 400 billion listeners called in to correct my pronunciation, I made sure to get my Puyallups and Duvalls straight.
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