KSP-community geography

[322997am]

Her from kamerika and I pronounce it correctly.

[Phil deCube]

22 minutes ago, Sirine said:

Hi, from Kalaysia. (Bet not much people know where is it...)

I lived in Butterworth and on Penang Island between 1981 and 1983.

32 minutes ago, Tourist said:

Ksydney (the K is silent), Kaustralia ( the K isn't silent, and the "ralia" is ridiculously overemphasized... kind of like Kost-RAAAIILLL
EEya). 

A bit like this?

[Tourist]

12 minutes ago, Phil deCube said:

 

A bit like this?

Nailed it!!

[Finox]

Hello from KOhio!

Interesting, this thread...

[Kerbol Macrosystems]

52 minutes ago, Sirine said:

Hi, from Kalaysia. (Bet not much people know where is it...)

Isn't that the place that's getting charged all the time?

I'm based out of Jersey City in the USA. I also work out of upstate NY or Alabama sometimes. 

[Hobbes Novakoff]

Oregon. Everyone seems to pronounce it as "ory-gone," which I find hilarious.

[Torgo]

4 hours ago, Hobbes Novakoff said:

Oregon. Everyone seems to pronounce it as "ory-gone," which I find hilarious.

That was the first thing I had to learn when I moved out there for school 20 years ago. Now I live here in the Peoples' Demokratic Republik of New Jersey, so I still am not allowed to pump my own gas!

Somehow, people in the other 48 states and civilized nations around the world manage to pump their own gas every day without engulfing the world in some kind of cataclysmic fireball, but the people of Oregon and New Jersey can't be trusted to do it. 

[Hary R]

Greeting from Madagasikara.

That's how you write it in our language. Interesting facts, the "C" doesn't exist in the malagasy language.

[KerBlammo]

12 hours ago, Aetharan said:

Arkansas, USA.  I'll leave it up to our friends in Kansas and Alabama to decide whether that's technically a Southern or Midwestern state.  xD

(As a funny side-note for our foreign friends who are unaware of this fact:  Despite apparently differing only in the additional syllable at the beginning, "Arkansas" is pronounced nothing like "Kansas".  The longer state's name is pronounced as a dactyl, with the second 'a' an undefined sound closer to a soft 'e' and the final syllable pronounced like a tool for cutting.  The shorter, at least when spoken in the dialect of a native from my state, is a trochee that enunciates the first syllable like it's written, but sounds like the second should be spelled "zus".  I would blame this inconsistency on an attempt to Romanize words borrowed from the natives' language, but that still doesn't explain identical spelling for very different-sounding words.)

In Kansas the Arkansas River is pronounced "R-Kansas" and for some reason the Kansas River is called the "Kaw".

[Aetharan]

7 minutes ago, KerBlammo said:

In Kansas the Arkansas River is pronounced "R-Kansas" and for some reason the Kansas River is called the "Kaw".

...aaand it all makes even less sense to me now.  Do Kansans pronounce the state of Arkansas the same way that they do the river, or do they use two unrelated pronunciations for the same word with the same origin depending on whether they're talking about a body of water or a political region?

[KerBlammo]

26 minutes ago, Aetharan said:

....or do they use two unrelated pronunciations for the same word with the same origin depending on whether they're talking about a body of water or a political region?

Yes.

[Mighty1]

Kroatia there.

[Thomassino]

Greetings from Klovakia! Or Kslovakia? 

[pandaman]

England here.

Not going to add a K in front as it sounds like King Gland if I do.