Location: I-75 in OHIO
Time: Night - coming home from Beth's wedding
We pass a large highway sign that reads:
BELLEFONTAINE
XXX miles
"How would you pronounce that?" Tad asks.
"I don't know. Bel-fon-TAYNE?" I suggested in my best faux-French accent.
"Nope. In Ohio, they say Bell Fountain."
. . . . "Oh, my . . . "
"Yup," Tad said. "Bell Fountain."
At that point, even Indiana seemed too far away.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
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ReplyDeleteI LOL when I read this.
ReplyDeleteThat drove me NUTS when we moved to Ohio! I used to ride my motorcycle to BELL FONTANE. I refused to call it BELL FOUNTAIN. I just wasn't going to do that.
I still call Akron AkRON, with the emphasis on the second syllable. It's a joke on how I thought it was pronounced the first roadtrip my husband and I took together from my home state (NY) to his (CO).