In Canada we pronounce it App-a-lay-chan.
apple-ay-shin
Everyone else is wrong
ap-latch-n only it's moot, I live in the Blue Ridge with God. Uns eat yas hearts out.
Say it in your best southern redneck accent and thats the way it was meant to be pronounced. .
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There is no debate. There are several variants of it. Tomato Tomato.
up over the hills, theres nothing to fear
theres a pub across the way with whisky and beer
its a lengthy journey on the way up to the top
but it ain't so bad if you have a great big bottle o'scotch
apple-atchin.
Don't forget that the Appalachian chain of mountains extends through Newfoundland and, because of continental drift, on to Europe and Africa. You'd expect the local people to pronounce it differently. I wonder how the Scots pronounce it?
I have a Western New England (CT) accent and pronounce it App-a-lay-shi-an.
Mao-tan.......
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As a northerner (ignore the Lexington location - I just moved there), I was taught long a - Apple lay chin - but on the other hand, everyone pronounces the National Forest in Florida - Apalachicola - with a short a.
call it what you want, but don't presume that you can correct me for saying apple-latchin when seven generations of my ancestors have lived there and called it that.
Unwrap a smile. -Little Debbie
My aunt married a man from Tennessee who's family has been there for many generations and they pronounce it AppaLATCHin.
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OK, then here's a question for everyone: If I do a NOBO thru-hike, at what point on the trail do I switch from "LATCH" to "LAYCH"? I'm thinking probably somewhere in northern virginia?
True confession . . . I'm inconsistent, and I'm as Southern as you can get. Sometimes it comes out one way, and sometimes it comes out the other, and you know what . . . I really don't care!
hike your own hike - talk your own talk -
y'all are all retarded. it's appalachian.