Talk:Kanawha River
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[edit] Pronunciation
Regarding the pronunciation added by Wahkeenah (kah-NAH-Wah): It seems more often to be pronounced something like kuh-NAW-uh, with the third syllable hardly pronounced if at all, and the W silent. Any thoughts? Malepheasant 03:36, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I entered the pronunciation the way it sounded to my Northern ears when I asked locals how it was pronounced, while passing through the area years ago: kah-NAH-wah as opposed to KAH-nah-wah or kah-nah-WAH. I take it you're a local yourself, so you would be in position to know, and to fine-tune it a little better. Since I'm from Oregon originally, and am rather sensitive to people mispronouncing it (or-i-gun RIGHT; or-ee-gahn WRONG) feel free to fix it. Just try to do it in normal phonetic English, in keeping with your illustration, rather than those cryptic international phonetic symbols that linguistic fanatics on this site sometimes use (see Illinois, for example). :) Wahkeenah 10:26, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I've usually heard kuh-NAW-uh, but I do know some people in Kanawha County that say it Ka-NAW. Youngamerican 06:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Yes, I've heard this fairly often too, so added it to the article as a variant. Malepheasant 18:27, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Ka-noiee ("noi" as pronounced similar "oil", dropping the "L") another variant name is Ki-kah-ka-mi-ka-tui (Kanawha otherwise variant "Great "Kaugh-nuh-way") Valley. Many different nationals migrated through this area to the west, some stayed. This Ka-noiee variation is the way the lower Kanawha river settlers pronounced our portion of the river. Some of these pioneers married Native American wives. In recent decades, I've found myself pronouncing it "Ka-NAW" unlike in my youth. However, the really elder still pronounce it, "Ka-noiee". West Virginia has good cross-mix of people. Conaughy 17:33, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
