Help me settle an argument: Pronunciation of 'Cincinnati'
There's this one friend ( a mutual friend of other friends as well ) that adamantly states it's pronounced "Sin Sin att-UH"....not "Sin Sin a-TEE" I suspect it's part of his recent embracing of rural/redneck culture ( and his ever rightward political shift ) but he fancies himself as a sort of intellectual hillbilly and is as stubborn as 3 mule teams. He mentioned the place and kept pronouncing it that way; it actually seemed like he deliberately mentioned it more often than conversation would normally flow just to "bait" us.
I and others called him on it and it and he got really agitated. He's not even from there. I've never heard that pronunciation even from people who lived there, though they are not native.
Can anybody born and raised in the area weigh in?
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I grew up in a corner of SW PA that pronounced it "O-Hi-ya". 
We also said "Collar-radda" for Colorado. Must be a regional thing.
Quite clever!!
Maybe you could f*ck with the pronunciation of his name a bit. First or last. Just for fun. 
But I'm from Alabama and we talk funny.
Well, if you're talking about the small town in Alabama, it's AY-rab.
"The name of the town was an unintentional misspelling by the US Postal Service in 1882 of the city's intended name, taken from Arad (Ay-rad) Thompson, the son of the town founder and first postmaster Stephen Tuttle Thompson. Two other proper names for the town were sent to the US Postal Service for consideration: "Ink" and "Bird". Arab was incorporated in 1892.[3]
Standup comedian Henry Cho, whose wife is from Arab, shares the alternate explanation that the town's name was changed following a misspelling on the water tower.[4]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%2C_Alabama#History
