Cambria pronunciation
Hi all!
A listener reminded us recently that Cambria is pronounced CAM-bree-ah, not
“CAME”-bree-ah. It’s always a good reminder, so we’re pronouncing it
consistently and correctly.
If you want to check out a fun story about the town’s pronunciation and
history, here’s an award-winning piece that Randol White did for us about
it in 2015:
Ciao!
Marisa
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Director of Programming and Content
KCBX Central Coast Public Radio
(805) 549-8855
Good luck with that!
Camebria = San Louie Obispo
Monica
On Feb 22, 2024, at 5:16 PM, Marisa Waddell via Onair <onair@list.kcbx.net> wrote:
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div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; }Hi all!A listener reminded us recently that Cambria is pronounced CAM-bree-ah, not “CAME”-bree-ah. It’s always a good reminder, so we’re pronouncing it consistently and correctly.
If you want to check out a fun story about the town’s pronunciation and history, here’s an award-winning piece that Randol White did for us about it in 2015:
Ciao!
Marisa
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KCBX Central Coast Public Radio
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And as for the first vowel, it's long established I hope that it's not 'Cahmbria.'
On Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 07:22:17 PM PST, Monica Fiscalini via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net wrote:
Good luck with that!
Camebria = San Louie Obispo
Monica
On Feb 22, 2024, at 5:16 PM, Marisa Waddell via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net wrote:
Hi all!
A listener reminded us recently that Cambria is pronounced CAM-bree-ah, not “CAME”-bree-ah. It’s always a good reminder, so we’re pronouncing it consistently and correctly.
If you want to check out a fun story about the town’s pronunciation and history, here’s an award-winning piece that Randol White did for us about it in 2015:
Ciao!
Marisa
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Thanks for the note. For me it's struggling with over a 50 year habit.
On Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 07:22:17 PM PST, Monica Fiscalini via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net wrote:
Good luck with that!
Camebria = San Louie Obispo
Monica
On Feb 22, 2024, at 5:16 PM, Marisa Waddell via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net wrote:
Hi all!
A listener reminded us recently that Cambria is pronounced CAM-bree-ah, not “CAME”-bree-ah. It’s always a good reminder, so we’re pronouncing it consistently and correctly.
If you want to check out a fun story about the town’s pronunciation and history, here’s an award-winning piece that Randol White did for us about it in 2015:
Ciao!
Marisa
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…and let’s not forget El Paso De Robles - and its variants.
On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 19:58 John Walsh via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net
wrote:
Thanks for the note. For me it's struggling with over a 50 year habit.
On Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 07:22:17 PM PST, Monica Fiscalini via
Onair onair@list.kcbx.net wrote:
Good luck with that!
Camebria = San Louie Obispo
Monica
On Feb 22, 2024, at 5:16 PM, Marisa Waddell via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net
wrote:
Hi all!
A listener reminded us recently that Cambria is pronounced CAM-bree-ah,
not “CAME”-bree-ah. It’s always a good reminder, so we’re pronouncing it
consistently and correctly.
If you want to check out a fun story about the town’s pronunciation and
history, here’s an award-winning piece that Randol White did for us about
it in 2015:
Ciao!
Marisa
__
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KCBX Central Coast Public Radio
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Randol wrote a story about that, too!
https://www.kcbx.org/local-lingo/2015-04-20/roh-blays-or-roh-buhlz-how-do-you-say-wine-country
From: David Figueroa [mailto:deeoheff@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 9:15 PM
To: John Walsh jfwalshman@yahoo.com
Cc: Marisa Waddell mwaddell@kcbx.org; Monica Fiscalini <
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Subject: Re: [Onair] Re: Cambria pronunciation
…and let’s not forget El Paso De Robles - and its variants.
On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 19:58 John Walsh via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net
wrote:
Thanks for the note. For me it's struggling with over a 50 year habit.
On Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 07:22:17 PM PST, Monica Fiscalini via
Onair onair@list.kcbx.net wrote:
Good luck with that!
Camebria = San Louie Obispo
Monica
On Feb 22, 2024, at 5:16 PM, Marisa Waddell via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net
wrote:
Hi all!
A listener reminded us recently that Cambria is pronounced CAM-bree-ah, not
“CAME”-bree-ah. It’s always a good reminder, so we’re pronouncing it
consistently and correctly.
If you want to check out a fun story about the town’s pronunciation and
history, here’s an award-winning piece that Randol White did for us about
it in 2015:
Ciao!
Marisa
__
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KCBX Central Coast Public Radio
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I think the name to think of is Camelot when supposedly saying Cambria correctly.
However...I moved to SLO in 1965. I know people who were born in Cambria and they say Came-bria. Just wondering if the disgruntled listener is a Cambria native, or if they grew up there, or if they're an LA transplant.
On Thursday, February 22, 2024, 09:56:33 PM CST, John Walsh via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net wrote:
And as for the first vowel, it's long established I hope that it's not 'Cahmbria.'
On Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 07:22:17 PM PST, Monica Fiscalini via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net wrote:
Good luck with that!
Camebria = San Louie Obispo
Monica
On Feb 22, 2024, at 5:16 PM, Marisa Waddell via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net wrote:
Hi all!
A listener reminded us recently that Cambria is pronounced CAM-bree-ah, not “CAME”-bree-ah. It’s always a good reminder, so we’re pronouncing it consistently and correctly.
If you want to check out a fun story about the town’s pronunciation and history, here’s an award-winning piece that Randol White did for us about it in 2015:
Ciao!
Marisa
__
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The listener is from here. As are the many natives who correctly say
CAM-bree-ah. Did you check out Randol’s story? It was LA transplants
(developers) who started calling it CAME-bree-ah back in the late 1920s.
That’s why many people have been mispronouncing it for generations.
mw
From: Jim Dee [mailto:palmcinema@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2024 1:59 PM
To: Marisa Waddell mwaddell@kcbx.org; Monica Fiscalini <
mfiscalini@yahoo.com>; John Walsh jfwalshman@yahoo.com
Cc: Onair onair@list.kcbx.net
Subject: Re: [Onair] Re: Cambria pronunciation
I think the name to think of is Camelot when supposedly saying Cambria
correctly.
However...I moved to SLO in 1965. I know people who were born in Cambria
and they say Came-bria. Just wondering if the disgruntled listener is
a Cambria native, or if they grew up there, or if they're an LA transplant.
On Thursday, February 22, 2024, 09:56:33 PM CST, John Walsh via Onair <
onair@list.kcbx.net> wrote:
And as for the first vowel, it's long established I hope that it's not
'Cahmbria.'
On Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 07:22:17 PM PST, Monica Fiscalini via
Onair onair@list.kcbx.net wrote:
Good luck with that!
Camebria = San Louie Obispo
Monica
On Feb 22, 2024, at 5:16 PM, Marisa Waddell via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net
wrote:
Hi all!
A listener reminded us recently that Cambria is pronounced CAM-bree-ah, not
“CAME”-bree-ah. It’s always a good reminder, so we’re pronouncing it
consistently and correctly.
If you want to check out a fun story about the town’s pronunciation and
history, here’s an award-winning piece that Randol White did for us about
it in 2015:
Ciao!
Marisa
__
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Director of Programming and Content
KCBX Central Coast Public Radio
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I moved to Cambria in 1978. And at that time there were three classes of
residents: came-Brians. Cam-Brians. And cum-Brians. And each class knew
their pronunciation was the correct one.
But it’s been so long that it’s hard to recollect off top of my head but
each category also corresponded as to whether they were of Artist ilk,
immigrants from urban world, nativists etc. at the time one immediately
knew from which camp they affiliated with.
Best,
Tom Wilmer
Instagram: @thomas.wilmer
Twitter: @TomCWilmer
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 17:23 Marisa Waddell via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net
wrote:
The listener is from here. As are the many natives who correctly say
CAM-bree-ah. Did you check out Randol’s story? It was LA transplants
(developers) who started calling it CAME-bree-ah back in the late 1920s.
That’s why many people have been mispronouncing it for generations.
mw
From: Jim Dee [mailto:palmcinema@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2024 1:59 PM
To: Marisa Waddell mwaddell@kcbx.org; Monica Fiscalini <
mfiscalini@yahoo.com>; John Walsh jfwalshman@yahoo.com
Cc: Onair onair@list.kcbx.net
Subject: Re: [Onair] Re: Cambria pronunciation
I think the name to think of is Camelot when supposedly saying Cambria
correctly.
However...I moved to SLO in 1965. I know people who were born in Cambria
and they say Came-bria. Just wondering if the disgruntled listener is
a Cambria native, or if they grew up there, or if they're an LA transplant.
On Thursday, February 22, 2024, 09:56:33 PM CST, John Walsh via Onair <
onair@list.kcbx.net> wrote:
And as for the first vowel, it's long established I hope that it's not
'Cahmbria.'
On Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 07:22:17 PM PST, Monica Fiscalini via
Onair onair@list.kcbx.net wrote:
Good luck with that!
Camebria = San Louie Obispo
Monica
On Feb 22, 2024, at 5:16 PM, Marisa Waddell via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net
wrote:
Hi all!
A listener reminded us recently that Cambria is pronounced CAM-bree-ah,
not “CAME”-bree-ah. It’s always a good reminder, so we’re pronouncing it
consistently and correctly.
If you want to check out a fun story about the town’s pronunciation and
history, here’s an award-winning piece that Randol White did for us about
it in 2015:
Ciao!
Marisa
__
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Director of Programming and Content
KCBX Central Coast Public Radio
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Ha ha
Very interesting converation thread here. I would say we are not as bad as the Swiss, who have three completely different ways of saying every City in their country.
Take Basel for example:
Some Swiss call it Bale (as if they were pronouncing Ball in French). Some call it Basel (with a german accent) and others still call it Basilea (with an Italian accent). And EVERY city has these three competely different pronunciations unless you get deep into Graubunden where Romansch is spoken and then you even get a fourth barely comprehensible pronunciation. For example, Sumvitg is somehow pronounced, Soom_vitch.
The CityNerd (a popular you tube blogger) says that on the Central Coast we manage to pronounce everything as if we didn't know the Spanish language ever existed. Ha Ha. And I think there is some truth to that. He makes fun of the way we say Higuera, for example.
In my own humble opinion, we seem to find the middle ground between truly Spanish (like the way David Figueroa correctly pronounces San LUIS Obispo), and the totally anglicized version one gets from the rest of the US (San Louie...). So, what is correct? I guess I am discovering that there is more than one way to skin a cat, but I prefer to toggle between the truly Spanish and the middle ground we typically find here, while avoiding the overly anglicized.
So, I woud say either the Spanish Cam_BRIE_ah...Cam (as in Comma) Brie (as in the cheese) and Ah with an emphasis on the cheese...or the middle ground Cam_Bria, whilst avoiding CAME_bria. But like I said, there always seems to be more than one way to skin a cat.
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Da: Thomas Wilmer via Onair onair@list.kcbx.net
Inviato: venerdì 23 febbraio 2024 18:24
A: Marisa Waddell mwaddell@kcbx.org
Cc: Jim Dee palmcinema@aol.com; John Walsh jfwalshman@yahoo.com; Monica Fiscalini mfiscalini@yahoo.com; Onair onair@list.kcbx.net
Oggetto: [Onair] Re: Cambria pronunciation
I moved to Cambria in 1978. And at that time there were three classes of residents: came-Brians. Cam-Brians. And cum-Brians. And each class knew their pronunciation was the correct one.
But it’s been so long that it’s hard to recollect off top of my head but each category also corresponded as to whether they were of Artist ilk, immigrants from urban world, nativists etc. at the time one immediately knew from which camp they affiliated with.
Best,
Tom Wilmer
Instagram: @thomas.wilmer
Twitter: @TomCWilmer
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 17:23 Marisa Waddell via Onair <onair@list.kcbx.netmailto:onair@list.kcbx.net> wrote:
The listener is from here. As are the many natives who correctly say CAM-bree-ah. Did you check out Randol’s story? It was LA transplants (developers) who started calling it CAME-bree-ah back in the late 1920s. That’s why many people have been mispronouncing it for generations.
mw
From: Jim Dee [mailto:palmcinema@aol.commailto:palmcinema@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2024 1:59 PM
To: Marisa Waddell <mwaddell@kcbx.orgmailto:mwaddell@kcbx.org>; Monica Fiscalini <mfiscalini@yahoo.commailto:mfiscalini@yahoo.com>; John Walsh <jfwalshman@yahoo.commailto:jfwalshman@yahoo.com>
Cc: Onair <onair@list.kcbx.netmailto:onair@list.kcbx.net>
Subject: Re: [Onair] Re: Cambria pronunciation
I think the name to think of is Camelot when supposedly saying Cambria correctly.
However...I moved to SLO in 1965. I know people who were born in Cambria and they say Came-bria. Just wondering if the disgruntled listener is a Cambria native, or if they grew up there, or if they're an LA transplant.
On Thursday, February 22, 2024, 09:56:33 PM CST, John Walsh via Onair <onair@list.kcbx.netmailto:onair@list.kcbx.net> wrote:
And as for the first vowel, it's long established I hope that it's not 'Cahmbria.'
On Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 07:22:17 PM PST, Monica Fiscalini via Onair <onair@list.kcbx.netmailto:onair@list.kcbx.net> wrote:
Good luck with that!
Camebria = San Louie Obispo
Monica
On Feb 22, 2024, at 5:16 PM, Marisa Waddell via Onair <onair@list.kcbx.netmailto:onair@list.kcbx.net> wrote:
Hi all!
A listener reminded us recently that Cambria is pronounced CAM-bree-ah, not “CAME”-bree-ah. It’s always a good reminder, so we’re pronouncing it consistently and correctly.
If you want to check out a fun story about the town’s pronunciation and history, here’s an award-winning piece that Randol White did for us about it in 2015:
Ciao!
Marisa
__
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KCBX Central Coast Public Radio
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