Talk:St. Cloud, Minnesota

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Is the purpose of this article to discuss St. Cloud or merely to describe it in terms of how far it is from the Twin Cities and whether the "media markets" overlap?

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[edit] Name

The city clerk's page is at St. Cloud, not Saint Cloud. St. Cloud city clerk page FearÉIREANN 18:50 19 Jul 2003 (UTC)

The City Clerk's page also says "Saint Cloud" at the top. St. is an abbreviation of Saint, yet on official city documents (city ordinances, the mayor's State of the City address, etc.) they use St. Strange! Kedster T/C 14:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Swisshelm

Why go on forever about Swisshelm? There is a separate page devoted to her. She is only one person in the history of a community that spans 150 years. This information is overdone. Unless the author can defend this, it will be deleted.

[edit] Template for a U.S. City

For those who plan on editing and expanding this article, please follow the Template for a U.S. City. Thanks!--Daveswagon 09:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

It would be useful to note how the name of this city is pronounced. Is it some approximation to the French original [san'klu] or pronounced as though it is the English words "saint" and "cloud" [seɪnt'klaʊd]? --Macrakis 01:42, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm from the area and I've always heard it pronounced the same way as any English speaker would pronounce "saint" and "cloud".--Daveswagon 01:48, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
[san'klu] is occasionally used by people being obtuse. I've heard it maybe 2-3x in my life. -Ravedave 05:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Claims to Fame

FYI: St. Cloud was listed as one of the absolutely worst places to live in America. Check out this reference. [1]. StudyAndBeWise 05:46, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

That is absolutely hilarious, but as the article points out, more legitimate studies actually rank the city rather high in several regards. Aside from being boring and aesthetically uninspired, there's a whole lot more that could be wrong with St. Cloud.--Daveswagon 06:45, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

The author of the study on worst places never visited St. Cloud. Choose your sources.

[edit] Adding information

Don't flame me here, but I think that something about long-standing racial tension in St. Cloud--which is often addressed in the news--should be brought up in this article.Maddiej (talk) 02:13, 29 December 2007 (UTC)