This is the poster for the current show in the Richmond Public Library Special Collections room. Doesn't it just bring back memories? Well, for some of us it surely does. I think about reading Misty for the first time, not knowing how to pronounce Chincoteague. I was saying, in my mind, Chin-cot-ah-gyou. It was many, many years later, when we'd first moved to Richmond, VA, that we went to the eastern shore and visited the place that I learned how it was actually pronounced. What a surprise.
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Hahaha, I know I have pronounced plenty of things incorrectly in my lifetime (every day I do, I'm sure) but your childhood pronunciation of Chincoteague cracks me up. It always amazes me when finally hearing how fictional names, especially, are supposed to be pronounced.
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