Snoqualmie Falls (courtesy: cefka at Wikipedia)
“Location. Location. Location.” No. In Seattle it’s, “Pronunciation. Pronunciation. Pronunciation.” Seattle Newbies have difficulty with the pronunciation of words like Snoqualmie and Sammamish because they didn’t grow up hearing the names.
No one visiting Seattle for the first time would ever guess how the tongue-twister, Puyallup, should sound. Even simple names can be mangled, but the following words are used often by Seattleites:
Read Puyallup, Sammamish, Tulalip to find out why these words are used everyday in the Northwest. (This is a photo of Snoqualmie Falls. From Seattle, go to I-90, cross Lake Washington and keep going east about 25 miles (or less).
