Originally Posted by QBeth
But, I'm at a loss on how someone could mispronounce Massachusetts (I was born there). "Massa CHUS utts"?? You should hear people who try to pronounce Worcester as "Wore chester"!
I would say it that way too.
We had friends come from Germany and one set wanted to go to Yow Semight, the other wanted to go to Valley Joe. (I looked at both a little perplexed until we cleared up that one wanted to go to Yosemite and the other to Vallejo.) lol