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How do you pronounce "Sacagawea?"

topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I had always said, "Sack'-uh-juh-wee'-uh"

Then I just saw on the Discovery Channel a program where the narrator pronounced it:

"Suh-kah'-gah-wee-uh" Sure sounds more Indian to me.

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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've always said: Sac-ah-ja-wee-ah.

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  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭
    SACKIES image
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭
    Sack-of Junk-Waya.............Ken
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    "Crap a ja wee a"
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • misterRmisterR Posts: 2,305 ✭✭
    Sack-a-juh-we-uhimage
  • keithdagenkeithdagen Posts: 2,025 ✭
    Ugh Lee
    Keith ™

  • jonesyjonesy Posts: 5,031
    Ken was close. It's Sac ah ja way a . image
  • BigernBigern Posts: 161
    Say what you will but they are a hot comodity right now. this will more than likely be the last year so I guess people are being fueled by that.
  • jonesyjonesy Posts: 5,031
    I still think that the dollar coin can be saved. The Mint needs to continue to make them but use a silver metal content. image
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I pronounce it, exactly as it's writtenimage
  • sadysta1sadysta1 Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭
    Sack-a$$-Jaw-eya
  • CoulportCoulport Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭
    Simple.

    Brass Bucks.
    The most money I made are on coins I haven't sold.

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  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    Sack
    Give Blood (Red Bags) & Platelets (Yellow Bags)!
  • joeyukjoeyuk Posts: 3,282
    sacks is good.image
  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    Suh-KAH-gah-wee-uh is the way it's pronounced by the woman who modeled for the coin (Randy'L Teton).

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

  • paigowjohnnypaigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭
    Sack-ah-ja-CRAP'-ah
  • rd5425rd5425 Posts: 484
    suck-a-jah-weeya
  • Wolfy00002Wolfy00002 Posts: 471
    "them fuuuugly gold colored coins"
  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sac-Ah-Wah.that's the easy way.Al
  • jonesyjonesy Posts: 5,031
    Women don't have sacks! image
  • DabigkahunaDabigkahuna Posts: 3,419


    Sa-Kag-A-Way Is what I like to use.

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  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Naw
    Sacherass.imageimage.Al
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sa-Cah-ga-we-ya was the way Steve Ambrose pronouned it when we heard him speak at the Great Falls visitor center a few years ago. It was new to me but all the folks in the know seemed to nod in agreement, so I assume it to be the gospel truth....my kids hit it off with the great grand-daughter of Sargent some-one-or-another who was on the expidition. We had a great time.

    Did you know that they have found the privy locations of the expidition....marked by mercury from the pills they took for whatever ail'd them....used for syphilis too, at the time.
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
    I'm convinced that only she knows... and she's been dead for a few years now. Fortunatly, there arnt any English words that sound remotely close to "Sacagawea," so it's hard to confuse it with something else.

    David
    Lincolncentman Toned Lincolns

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