A listener reports that the pronunciation of Novi, Michigan, is counterintuitive. It’s pronounced noh-VYE. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Novi, Michigan”
You remember our conversation where I was talking about going to Vermont and visiting the town of Charlotte and being surprised that it looked like Charlotte, but it’s pronounced Charlotte?
Well, we got a lot of responses from people who were telling us about the strange city names and town names in their area.
We heard from Frank Maynard, who’s in Northern California, and the city that he lives in is spelled N-O-V-I.
Any thoughts about how you might say that?
Well, I don’t know.
Navi or Novi seemed like the logical ones, but what is it?
Novi.
Novi.
Isn’t that weird?
Maybe it’s like Lodi, L-O-D-I.
That could be.
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