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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Why We Can’t Agree on a Pronunciation of the Word Sauna
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:06:24
	Publish Date:		2019-05-10 05:00:00
	Description:		Since March, we've been collecting your questions for a new series at WXPR called Curious North . Today we're answering one of those questions as part of our We Live Up Here series. Melissa Nieman in Tomahawk recently asked: Can we agree on a pronunciation of the word sauna?! Mackenzie Martin talked to two linguistic researchers to try and figure out the answer. In the English language, there are a lot of words that people disagree on the pronunciation for. Recently, we got a Curious North question from a listener who wanted us to solve a pronunciation debate for her. Melissa Nieman now lives in Tomahawk, but she’s originally from Ironwood, MI, in the western part of the Upper Peninsula. She asks: Can we agree on the pronunciation of the word sauna?! Melissa pronounces it SOW-na, but many people pronounce it SAW-na. If you live around here, you might have heard this debate before. Melissa says when she says it her way to someone who isn’t from the U.P., she often gets corrected or
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