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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8876103">I think getting into Said is probably overly political for this forum but just to focus on the regional pronunciation aspect of this point: do you use the local regional names for places in the Middle East? People in the Middle East called Egypt, Misr, and people in Egypt itself, I believe, call it Masr. I am a little rusty on this so don't write a paper using these terms. The issue here for me is no one is telling you your local pronunciations are wrong, but we live in other parts of the country where Appalachia is pronounced differently, just like a lot of places are pronounced differently if you live in say the south versus the north, or the east coast versus the west coast (even New Yorkers and people from Boston pronounce things very differently: and to be clear our view of New Yorkers is probably pretty similar to your view of northerners). If people are being rude, then definitely I get it. I've had people from out of state come here and be insulting, and  a lot of times there is a class divide and cultural divide there. But if someone comes here and calls Haverhill "Hayver Hill", because that's what it looks like it sounds like and people outside the state pronounce it that way, I might tell them the local way but I wouldn't take umbrage at it.</blockquote>