For today's edition of "What Do You Say?," we're switching it up a bit, and looking at a street name.
We wanted to figure out the best way to pronounce "Zuni" Street in Denver.
A handful of you -- Donna, Peter, and Max -- asked Next to figure it out, so we hit the street.
It turns out no one knew the official answer (video above).
So what do you say? Zu-ni, Zu-nee, Zun-ee? Let us know with #HeyNext.
The street is named for the Zuni Tribe, pronounced (Zoo-Nee), but the word is pronounced often as (Zun-eye) in Denver, so that's the pronunciation we use here on 9NEWS.
But that's not right, you say!
I heard the same thing about Buena Vista.
Our goal is to pronounce place names as the people in them pronounce them. Very few people pronounce the name of our state coh-loh-rah-doh, as its native Spanish would dictate. I don't see many people marching into the countless towns across the East and Midwest to protest the bastardized pronunciations of European place names.
In the case of Buena Vista, the city tells us it was named by Europeans, who twisted the Spanish phrase to their own tongue. And I say, to mix metaphors, let a twisted tongue lie.
If you have a debate about a street name, a city name, a county name, a mountain name -- we're here to help.
Just email your questions to next@9news.com.
