Big Jim posted:TM Terry posted:Big Jim posted:TM Terry posted:Big Jim posted:TM Terry posted:We need to clear up the proper pronunciation ofthe NFL team in Jacksonville (2nd largest city in Georgia). The Jaguars is properly pronounced JAG’ - WIRES’ with strong accents on both syllables. If you have any doubts, visit Jacksonville and take a personal survey.
Welp, if the folks in Jacksonville think they live in Georgia, then, they have no business pronouncing Jaguar at all! And neither do you!!!
But I do live here and have for 67 years. Pretty much know the history and its roots. If we shouldn’t call them JAG’ - WIRES’ we’ll call them DUUUUVAL!
The second largest city in Georgia is Columbus. But, since you live there, you knew that already...or do you really know where you live?
Frankly, I find it disturbing that you relish in insulting the good rednecks of Jacksonville. DUUUVAL!
I DID NOT insult the fine folks in Jacksonville, FLORIDA, you did! Go back and read what YOU posted. You were the one that put them all the way up into GEORGIA!
I'm find it disturbing that you can't take some ribbing at your own mistake!
And likewise I find it humorous that you couldn't see that all I said was in jest.
A little history of the initial years of the pronunciation battles that persisted at the city's naming of the new NFL team in Jacksonville: Many with a strong southern accent would pronounce the team JAG' - WIRES' and they would get blasted when they did so. Some angered by the odd pronunciation would even complain to our talk radio sports station saying that those people made the rest of the country believe that we were a hick town.
It seems this thread was started to discuss mispronunciation of some railroad names. My post was to illustrate an example, a comic one IMO, where many people were extremely insulted when a name was mispronounced.
BTW, when I was in school ('50's and '60's) a large number of my neighbors had moved from south Georgia to Jacksonville for work. (I lived on the north side of town.) The joke around here was that Jacksonville was the second largest city in the state of Georgia.
