Talk:Ouray
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[edit] Pronunciation
If you search Yahoo! for "Ouray Pronounced" you get 4,090 hits, and these iteration of how to pronounce the word:
- Yoo-ray
- oo-ray
- you-ray
- u-ray (found in "Biographical Dictionary of American-Indian History to 1900", published 2001)
- your-ray
- Yü-ray
- U-TRAU
- your-ay
The only dictionary that has a pronunciation is The Columbia Gazetteer of North America:
- YUR-ai
The pronunciation should be in the articles with the name Ouray
Need a consensus, can anyone help? WikiDon 21:41, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
Most everyone around here pronounces it you-ray. Or, maybe something a tiny bit more like 'yer-ray'.
