>All the people from Missouri that I know say "Saint Loo-iss." Living in >Missouri, I know the state is pronounced "Misery," as in "I live in a >State of Misery." Now Bob, I know that you don't always live in misery! When my mom was a kid growing up in Des Peres, Missouri (really a suburb of St. Louis) they used to say they "lived in despair in the state of misery" so that is a way old joke! But that is NOT the correct way to pronounce Missouri. I was going to include the correct way to pronounce Missouri until I realized my keyboard is deficient in phonetic markings. Without phonetic markings, I guess you would write it "Mi zur e" --short i as in "it" and long e as in "e." Nancy [Posted in FML issue 4812]