Wilkes-Barre: how do you you say it?
The city of Wilkes-Barre is only about a hundred miles north of where I've been living in the Philadelphia area for the past half century, but I've never had the slightest clue about how the name should be pronounced. My guess has always been that it is something like "wilks-bare", but I've always been uncomfortable with that stab in the dark.
Now we have a thorough accounting of the toponymic pronunciation problem from "The Diamond City" by the Susquehanna itself:
"How should Wilkes-Barre be pronounced? Are you sure about that?" By Roger DuPuis, Times Leader (8/5/22)
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