{"id":28708,"date":"2016-10-06T09:56:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=28708"},"modified":"2016-10-06T14:16:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T19:16:05","slug":"nevada-odd-or-add","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=28708","title":{"rendered":"Nevada: \"odd\" or \"add\"?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/TrumpNevada.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/TrumpNevada.png\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-tells-nevadans-pronounce-nevadawrong\/story?id=42604383\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Tells Nevadans How to Pronounce 'Nevada' &#8230; Incorrectly<\/a>\", ABCNews 10\/5\/2016:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Donald Trump raised some eyebrows in the Silver State Wednesday night when he told Nevadans how to pronounce their state's name &#8212; differently than they do. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\"Heroin overdoses are surging and meth overdoses in Nevada, Nuh-VAH-da,\" he told the crowd in Reno. \"And you know what I said? I said when I came out here I said nobody says it the other day, has to be Nuh-VAH-da. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\"And if you don't say it correctly and it didn\u2019t happen to me but it happened to a friend of mine he was killed.\" \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Generally, the state's name is pronounced Nuh-VAD-uh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If Trump wants to come down from the penthouse his daddy bought him to lecture us on Nevada, he could at least pronounce it correctly.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorReid\/status\/783862774241849344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump's disquisition on pronunciation:<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><audio style=\"width: 230px;\" controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/TrumpNevada.wav\" type=\"audio\/wav\" \/>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Heroin overdoses are surging and meth overdoses in Nevada<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Nevada<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> and you know what I said?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> you know what I said?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> I said when I came out here I said<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> nobody says it the other way, has to be Nevada<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> right?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> and if you don't say it correctly<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> and it didn't happen to me but it happened to a friend of mine he was killed<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2004, the AP criticized George W. Bush for using the pronunciation that Trump asserted falsely to be Nevadan's preference (\"You say Nevada, I say Nevahda\", 1\/3\/2004):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">President George W. Bush has a language problem. At least, people who don't like him see this as a point where he's vulnerable, and they keep the journalistic spotlight focused on it, just as people who didn't like President William J. Clinton kept the spotlight on what they saw as his vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In both cases, I find that the intense scrutiny makes it hard to evaluate the issues. The focus on Clinton's \"Whitewater\" transactions seemed so wildly out of proportion to the facts, and so clearly motivated by political animus, that at a certain point I simply starting ignoring the whole sordid business. Throw in a few tens of millions of dollars worth of high-powered investigators with subpoena powers, and you can cast a few financial shadows on anybody &#8212; or so I reckoned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I've started to feel the same way about Bush's linguistic miscues. You can make any public figure sound like a boob, if you record everything he says and set hundreds of hostile observers to combing the transcripts for disfluencies, malapropisms, word formation errors and examples of non-standard pronunciation or usage. It's even easier if the critics use anecdotes based on the perceptions and verbal memories of equally hostile listeners. And the whole thing has crossed some kind of line when you can make the AP wire by citing him for using a widely accepted pronunciation, like <em>Nevada <\/em>with the stressed vowel of <em>cod <\/em>instead of <em>cad<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Still, it seems to tell us something about Donald Trump's style that he tries to bond with Nevadans over right vs. wrong ways to pronounce the name of their state\u00a0&#8212; and gets it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Trump Tells Nevadans How to Pronounce 'Nevada' &#8230; Incorrectly\", ABCNews 10\/5\/2016: Donald Trump raised some eyebrows in the Silver State Wednesday night when he told Nevadans how to pronounce their state's name &#8212; differently than they do. \u00a0 \"Heroin overdoses are surging and meth overdoses in Nevada, Nuh-VAH-da,\" he told the crowd in Reno. \"And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-politics","category-variation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28708"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28716,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28708\/revisions\/28716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}