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Right! You’d think that’s one thing they would have taken the time to figure out.

My company bought Heritage Cable, I think it was, in the late '80s, with a lot of those systems being in Iowa. I had to educate my group on how the names were pronounced, having heard them for years. Lived in the Land of Lincoln for many years and did some book learnin' in the Hawkeye State before moving to the Mile Hi City area.
 

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My company bought Heritage Cable, I think it was, in the late '80s, with a lot of those systems being in Iowa. I had to educate my group on how the names were pronounced, having heard them for years. Lived in the Land of Lincoln for many years and did some book learnin' in the Hawkeye State before moving to the Mile Hi City area.
I remember Heritage Cablevision. That’s what served my hometown of DeWitt when my parents finally decided to get cable. The other big service in the area was ***. Where abouts did you do your book learning? Can’t bring myself to say “Hawkeye State” as I’m a Cyclone grad.

Iowa has some odd pronunciations for its towns. We have a town Madrid but it’s pronounced MAD-rid, not like the city in Spain. We have a town named Nevada, but it’s not pronounced the same as the state. The middle syllable is pronounced vay like sway. Then there’s Charlotte, IA who’s last syllable is pronounced “lot” not “let” like the city in North Carolina.
 

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I remember Heritage Cablevision. That’s what served my hometown of DeWitt when my parents finally decided to get cable. The other big service in the area was ***. Where abouts did you do your book learning? Can’t bring myself to say “Hawkeye State” as I’m a Cyclone grad.

Iowa has some odd pronunciations for its towns. We have a town Madrid but it’s pronounced MAD-rid, not like the city in Spain. We have a town named Nevada, but it’s not pronounced the same as the state. The middle syllable is pronounced vay like sway. Then there’s Charlotte, IA who’s last syllable is pronounced “lot” not “let” like the city in North Carolina.

What was ^^^ censored in your message?

Wartburg College in Waverly. Happened to live in the same dorm as my dad did when he went there. They've since replaced Grossman Hall since it was old and decrepit by the time I lived there.

My cousin had two farms just north of town, and I was able to work there while I skipped -- I mean, after -- classes. He was killed in a tractor accident quite a few years back, and his boys kept up the milking and farming for a while, but they eventually sold the farms. His wife is still in town, in an apartment. My twin sister and her now husband, and my baby brother all got their degrees there. I left school to be a pole and tower climber, and ditch digger, doing some real work. And now I drive a desk.

Nevada is pronounced the same way (as yours) in Missouri. Our "Buena Vista" in Colorado starts like "Byoona..."
 

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What was ^^^ censored in your message?

Wartburg College in Waverly. Happened to live in the same dorm as my dad did when he went there. They've since replaced Grossman Hall since it was old and decrepit by the time I lived there.

My cousin had two farms just north of town, and I was able to work there while I skipped -- I mean, after -- classes. He was killed in a tractor accident quite a few years back, and his boys kept up the milking and farming for a while, but they eventually sold the farms. His wife is still in town, in an apartment. My twin sister and her now husband, and my baby brother all got their degrees there. I left school to be a pole and tower climber, and ditch digger, doing some real work. And now I drive a desk.

Nevada is pronounced the same way (as yours) in Missouri. Our "Buena Vista" in Colorado starts like "Byoona..."
The censored word was C-O-X.

Know a lot of folks that went to Wartburg. A lot of dairy farms up that way.

Yeah, Iowa’s Buena Vista is pronounced the same as Colorado.

Julie and I lived and worked in Manchester when we first got married the we got relocated back to my hometown of DeWitt when my job at the time shut down the Manchester faculty and moved everything to their DeWitt facility. That was 2004. Been in the same house ever since.
 

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