Debate on pronunciation of "Appalachian"

[weary]

Another vote for Apple-Latchin in case anyone's keeping score.

A few years ago Felix McGillicuddy wrote a piece where it turned out to be Apple-Asian. But I think he was just trying to be politically incorrect.

No. He was just trying to say something, about something, whatever it may have been.

But for those of us who have been thinking about it, Appalachian, is obviously pronounced Appalachian.

Weary

[LaurieAnn]

In Canada we pronounce it App-a-lay-chan.

[Summit]

In Canada we pronounce it App-a-lay-chan.

No surprise! You Canucks are north of Northerners!

[jaywalke]

"Short-a" according to all the PHDs at Appalachian State University!

It's pronounced that way by all the Appalachian scholars I've met. All of the academic programs focused on Appalachia are in the south, too, except for one rebel in Dayton, OH.

[njordan2]

apple-ay-shin
Everyone else is wrong

[MikenSalem]

ap-latch-n only it's moot, I live in the Blue Ridge with God. Uns eat yas hearts out.

[Hikerhead]

Say it in your best southern redneck accent and thats the way it was meant to be pronounced. .

[Manwich]

There is no debate. There are several variants of it. Tomato Tomato.

[Press]

apple-atchin.

[Snowleopard]

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.

[Monkeyboy]

Mao-tan.......

[Cookerhiker]

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.

[Swiss Roll]

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.

[Namaste]

My aunt married a man from Tennessee who's family has been there for many generations and they pronounce it AppaLATCHin.

[DrRichardCranium]

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?

[Swiss Roll]

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?

Not so fast, I have many friends here in Alabama (Ala-bay-ma?) who use the LAYCH pronunciation. Say what feels right to you and tell the self-appointed language police to shove it.

[Summit]

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!

[the brownbear]

hike your own hike - talk your own talk -

[Nomaderwhat]

Apple Lay Shin

[kanga]

y'all are all retarded. it's appalachian.