You know you're ghetto if you pick Option 5, I'm just tellin' you that right now.

I think mine is more of a Cleve-lin or Cleve-len.

I say it more closely to "lind" than "lund" but I went with lund.

Reset the poll to reflect some changes...so VOTE AGAIN!!!

I think I'm more of a Cleve-lend than Cleve-lind.

I think mine is more of a Cleve-lin or Cleve-len.

 

That's the way I pronounce it as well.

The "d" is silent.  It's a native thang ;-)

I voted for "other"

 

I was would say that Cleave-land is the proper pronunciation.  Wasn't that the original spelling as well until somekind of misprint by the local media?

 

Sounding it out though, I probably pronounce it as Cleave-lund or Cleave-lend.

I think I'm more of a Cleve-lend than Cleve-lind.

 

+1

This thread reminds me of the movie Howard the Duck. he pronounced it as two separate words. "Cleve - Land"

 

*Disclaimer* Yes I know that it is possibly one of the worst movies ever made.

Howard the Duck

 

Thanks for reviving a successfully repressed memory from my youth.  Worst... movie... ever.  I just wonder what the hell was going through the screenwriter's mind - "let's see, we'll do a movie about a humanoid duck from a technologically advanced culture who winds up on earth and has a palm-sweatingly uncomfortable pseudo romance with an earthling.  That should net us an Oscar!"

You know you're ghetto if you pick Option 5, I'm just tellin' you that right now.

 

No the answer to that would be.... I'm from "the'land" or "da land."  :) 

^ Or C-Tizzy

I usually say Cleve-lind; sometimes I say Cleve-lund; and very rarely I will say Cleve-lin

 

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Heck, I can barely pronounce my hometown consistently.

 

Sandusky can be pronounced as Sin-DUH-skee, Sen-DUH-skee, Sun-DUH-skee, and occassionally SAN-duh-skee.  My pronunciation falls somewhere between "Sin" and "Sen". haha

 

Then there's:

Toledo (tuh-LEE-doh or ti-LEE-doh)

Lorain (loh-RAIN or lur-AIN)

Elyria (ih-LEER-ee-uh or eh-LEER-ee-uh)

 

 

.....oh, linguistics!

The Best Location in the Nation!

The Best Location in the Nation!

 

Thank you, Bruce Kalinowski! :D LOL

I'd say Cleve-lind, but the d is very close to being silent. 

 

Fast fact:  Stacy Keetch pronounces in "Cleve-lin" in "Escape from LA."  Talk about a crappy movie...

OK...this series of "how do you pronounce: X" threads show me that the Urban Bar was pretty boring without my comments.  LOL

"de-fen-sive" ;)