Although we can all agree that the Appalachian Trail is a beautiful, wondrous footpath that extends nearly 2,200 miles from Georgia to Maine, when it comes to something as basic as to how it’s pronounced, the room is split.
Conventional wisdom says that the Mason-Dixon line represents the division amongst the two common pronunciations, with northerners saying “a-puh-LAY-chuhn”, while southerners say “a-puh-LATCH-uhn”, but conventional wisdom must be taken at face value.
Despite the title of this post, … Continue reading What is the Correct Pronunciation of “Appalachian”?