for me it's the 2nd one.
vad part of nevada rhymes with mad or bad
it's the only way i've ever heard it said. i'm over 50
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Lived in Nevada for 30 years. It's va like mad or bad or Dad.
Locals definitely laugh at the tourists who call it Ne-vaugh-da.
Grew up on the Great Lakes and everyone said VA as in rhymes with mad. Huh.
Thanks!
Veep is, obviously, about D.C. and I'm from Maryland which is not far from there, so the eastern dialect "vah" is what everyone uses here. So I guess Kent is correct.
I wouldn't put it past them doing it intentionally as a subtle "out of touch politicians who don't even pronounce the state name like normal people" joke. Especially if they're calling attention to it by having one character correct them (ie straight man).
I always saw Ken as just as out of touch as the rest of the characters, but I think you're right. Relatively speaking, he is the straight man character. TIL.
The character who plays the straight man role can swap around, particularly in something as long running as a sitcom. Though I'm not that familiar with this show.
People from DC also tend to say Ore-GONE instead of Ore-GUN, as it should be pronounced.
Nev-uh-day. Just to fuck with people from Nevada. 😌
Nevuh not Nevuhday
Locals pronounce it nə-VA-də.
On the east coast, I say "Ne-vaugh-da" and the other always sounds to my ear like a kind of old timey out west version. Like, I hear Sam Elliott saying it that way in my head.
are they from boston. the first part is nay va. DUH!
It's both. The original technically correct version is with Spanish pronunciation because it is a word from the Spanish language. Many people from Nevada, especially white folks, don't like the Spanish style pronunciation and insist it is wrong. I personally prefer the Spanish pronunciation because it's funny when Nevadans get annoyed over it, and I hate bigots.