MISSOURI NOT MISSOURAH

I swear, I have been watching CNN all night and I have not heard a single person call the state by Missouri. They all call it Missourah. Did the spelling of the state change after I moved out of state? Is this the new journalistic standard?

WTF?!?!?!

 

Sad-DAM, SAD-dam.....I-rak, Ee-rak, I-rock...If the president can say 'nukular,' Missourah is the least of our problems.

 

I looked at the title and thought Cockdian posted this...

 

Let it be decreed:
Only those from Missouri are allowed to pronounce it Missourah.

 

Manlaw.

 

do i have to change now? my parents are from missourah and i've always said missourah, even though i've never lived there

 

They all heard it from Michael J. Fox......

 

What I remember from being born and raised in Missouri:

Missourians themselves are split on this issue. Missour-ah tends to come from Kansas City and the northern and western portions of the state, an area bounded roughly by Kansas, Iowa, U.S. 65 and Interstate 70. The rest of the state leans Missouri.

 

We've got a desker from Kansas who we always turn to for the midwestern pronounciations. Missourah is one of his favorites that we say "wrong."

 

I grew up in Missouri, near Kansas City. I hate Missourah. Never figured out why some people say it that way.

 

I grew up in mid-Missouri. Even when the new basketball coach was hired at Mizzou, everyone hoped and prayed he would say Missouri and not Missourah.

 

Grampa: I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missoura!