CHAT: Ability of Americans & Europeans to locate each others

BP Jonsson scripsit:

> For the record I've known about Chicago [s\i"kQ:go] all my life, since my
> grandparents used to live there, but I learned of Illinois only when I saw
> "Blues Brothers"!
Oddly, this pron. of "Chicago" (or things close to it; I don't have
[Q] in my dialect) is standard everywhere in the U.S. except in Chicagoland
itself, where it is stigmatized; a more fronted pron. of the stressed
vowel (though not full /&/) is used there.

Anyhow, to complete your education, Chicago is located in Cook County.

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