Hi can some one from Washington state USA give me a little guidence on how
to pronounce Snoqualmies?
Is it Snow-Qual-mez? or something else?
I’d like to get it right when talking about the Unicon 11 location. sarah
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I’ve heard it as: Snow Qual Me
Sarah,
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:28:14 GMT, Sarah Miller
<sarah@vimes.u-net.com> wrote:
>Hi can some one from Washington state USA give me a little guidence on
>how to pronounce Snoqualmies?
>
>Is it Snow-Qual-mez? or something else?
>
Snoqualmie is pronounced: Snow - Qual - Me
The Snoqualmie Valley is formed by the Snoqualmie River. The Snoqualmie
River has three forks (North, Middle and South) here in the upper part of
the Valley. The Valley runs from the eastern side of the greater Seattle
metropolitan area (Issaquah, to be exact) up into the Cascade Mountain
Range. The very top of the Valley is known as Snoqualmie Pass. Snoqualmie
Pass is home to the Summit Hiking / Biking Center and The Summit at
Snoqualmie (a very large ski area - the largest night skiing operation in
the world). This area will host the MUni venues.
Thomas A. Daniels Chairman and Communications Director Northwest Committee
for Unicycling Events, Incorporated Post Office Box 790 North Bend,
Washington USA +01.425.831.4906 fax +01.425.831.4907 mobile
+01.425.785.5661 tadaniels@centurytel.net
For completeness sake and the benefit of speakers of non-US-English (who
pronounce things funny sometimes), according to the American Heritage
Dictionary, the accent is on the second syllable:
snow QUAL me
Raphael Lasar Matawan, NJ
Gilby wrote:
>
> I’ve heard it as: Snow Qual Me
>
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> Gilby Posted via the Unicyclist Community - http://unicyclist.com/forums
How is “Matawan” pronounced? 
How about “Hopatcong”?
John Dallas, TX Formerly Budd Lake, NJ
Raphael Lasar wrote:
> For completeness sake and the benefit of speakers of non-US-English (who
> pronounce things funny sometimes), according to the American Heritage
> Dictionary, the accent is on the second syllable:
>
> snow QUAL me
>
> Raphael Lasar Matawan, NJ
>
> Gilby wrote:
> >
> > I’ve heard it as: Snow Qual Me
> >
> > –
> > Gilby Posted via the Unicyclist Community -
> > http://unicyclist.com/forums
> Is it Snow-Qual-mez? or something else?
>
> I’d like to get it right when talking about the Unicon 11
> location. sarah
After you offer the accurate pronounciation as given by Tom Daniels, you
might want to add "that cool unicycling place east of the Seattle
metropolitan area. Seattle is a very cool place as well, and should make a
great location for a summer 2002 vacation!
I also never heard of the Snoqualmie Valley until a unicycle convention
was proposed there, and I live a lot closer…
Stay on top, John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone jfoss@unicycling.com
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