how do YOU pronounce Appalachian?

[Brooke]

My friend who works with me always corrects me on how I say Appalachian....I am from Michigan and she is from North Carolina. I'm curious on how all you pronounce Appalachian?
I say Appa-lay-chen
She says Appa-latchin
And I have also heard Appa-lah-chun

[Karma13]

I'm north of the Mason-Dixon line, so I pronounce it app-uh-LAY-shun.

You know. The correct way.

[treesloth]

Tomato, tomato.

This is not really that effective when spelled out. But hopefully you get the point.

[atmilkman]

She says Appa-latchin

I've asked the same thing. People that live there pronounce it like your friend.

[Ender]

I'm north of the Mason-Dixon line, so I pronounce it app-uh-LAY-shun.

Also how I pronounce it. I grew up in CT.

[klpicktown]

me - app-uh-LAY-shun (grew up northeast ohio)

guy I know - Appa-latchin (grew up southest ohio on the river)

Webster - a-pə-ˈlā-ch(ē-)ən. a-pə-ˈla-, -sh(ē-)ən\

....who knows.....

[Another Kevin]

I pronounce it differently depending on which side of the Mason-Dixon line I'm on.

I grew up saying "app-uh-LAY-shun," because I'm a damnyankee. (And at the time, I didn't know that damnyankee was one word.)

[DeerPath]

If your from the South, we tend to pronounce words fast and short like App-latchin.
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[JAK]

We say

A'-pull-A'-shen-Eh'

[hikernutcasey]

If your from the South, we tend to pronounce words fast and short like App-latchin.
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I 2nd that.

[Coffee Rules!]

I pronounce it AT.

[Ender]

We say

A'-pull-A'-shen-Eh'

Brilliant. Love it.

[Tipi Walter]

I lived in Boone NC for 30 years and everyone there said App-a-latchin. People would wince when tourists and newcomers said app-a-laychin. It's sort of like Vietnam---some say Viet-nahm, others say Viet-nam (like can).

[bigcranky]

Apple - LATCH - un.

Grew up a Yankee, moved south, finally figured out how to pronounce it properly

[JAK]

In fairness...
the Southern pronouncian is closest to the original native American, in both pronounciiation and location, although it came through the Spanish so it is hard to say how the original tribes pronounced it, and they were refering originally to a village, not the tribe, or the mountain range.

While exploring inland along the northern coast of Florida in 1528, the members of the Narváez expedition, including Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, found a Native American village near present-day Tallahassee, Florida whose name they transcribed as Apalchen or Apalachen [a.paˈla.tʃɛn]. The name was soon altered by the Spanish to Apalachee and used as a name for the tribe and region spreading well inland to the north. Pánfilo de Narváez's expedition first entered Apalachee territory on June 15, 1528, and applied the name. Now spelled "Appalachian", it is the fourth oldest surviving European place-name in the US. - wikipedia

[Darwin13]

i pronounce it apple-taint-skin.

[rocketsocks]

Appa-Lay-shun

[MuddyWaters]

The historical pronunciation woud be appa-lachen. Today, it doesnt mattter, interchangeable.
Interestingly, the name historically derived from the indians near Appalachicola, Florida.

from wikipedia:

"While exploring inland along the northern coast of Florida in 1528, the members of the Narváez expedition, including Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, found a Native American village near present-day Tallahassee, Florida whose name they transcribed as Apalchen or Apalachen [a.paˈla.tʃɛn]. The name was soon altered by the Spanish to Apalachee and used as a name for the tribe and region spreading well inland to the north. Pánfilo de Narváez's expedition first entered Apalachee territory on June 15, 1528, and applied the name. Now spelled "Appalachian", it is the fourth oldest surviving European place-name in the US.^[10]

After the de Soto expedition in 1540, Spanish cartographers began to apply the name of the tribe to the mountains themselves. The first cartographic appearance of Apalchen is on Diego Gutierrez' map of 1562; the first use for the mountain range is the map of Jacques le Moyne de Morgues in 1565.

[rocketsocks]

I pronounce it AT.

Ha, that funny!

[Sarcasm the elf]

If your from the South, we tend to pronounce words fast and short like App-latchin. Attachment 19524

I know that I'm going to catch some flack for this, but as a northerner I believe that the southern Appa-latch-chun. pronunciation is correct. If I'm not mistaken the word is derived from the Apalachee Indians. I continue to pronounce it incorrectly as Appa-lay-chin.