Wondering how to say the name of a specific Ohio community? This pronunciation guide has the answer.
Have you ever heard a sound so shocking that it raises the hair on your neck and makes you whip your head around?
No, it's not nails on a chalkboard or someone using a curse word in church, or a person saying "That Team Up North" days before the last Saturday in November.
It's someone absolutely butchering the pronunciation of "Scioto" or "Olentangy."
Although, you can't really blame them. Even Google doesn't know how to pronounce "Scioto." A quick search offered up the unconscionable pronunciation of skee-ow-tow.
Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism has a pronunciation guide -- first created in the 1950s -- for all of Ohio's towns and cities. The Dispatch has pulled the often-mispronounced community names, so you never have to be the one horrifying someone when you say "Bellefontaine," "Gallipolis" or "Pataskala."