Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Reader's Poll

Via Seacoast Online, I just learned that Columbus Day is now the second busiest weekend for tourism in Maine--more than 700,00 cars used the Maine Turnpike to leaf peep.

Which brings me to my question:
How do you pronounce that word that describes what the peepers are viewing? Foliage?

Is it fO-lE-ij? Or fO-lij? Do you pronounce it with two syllables or three?

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

Two syllables,doesn't everyone?

Tammy said...

I'm very complicated and definitely a 3 syllable FO-LEE-IG person.

Darn but that word syllable is hard to spell

Anonymous said...

positively three.

mainelife said...

I'm starting to think it's a northeast vs. the rest the country thing pronunciation.

Wisdom Weasel said...

Thanks to all these newly wed or nearly dead leaf peepers we pronounce it muh-KNee in these here parts.

Oh, keep on sailin', you cruise lovin' silver foxes; keep on honeymoonin', you be-chinoed young insurance actuary and your kindergarten teacher wife. Baby needs a new pair of shoes and I can live without a parking space for a few more weeks if it means a full root cellar.

Anonymous said...

Four.

:)

mainelife said...

Weasel-HEH...it's a very good thing for much of northern NE, isn't it?
Amy- Fall-Fol-e-age?

Marie said...

Down south it is a two syllable word.

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