I became curious after reading about the mistake on pronouncing Cote, and decided to check out the pronunciation the way I do words I'm not sure about before recording them.

But dictionary.com didn't have it (love how they'll pronounce the word for you). And my google-fu failed me, because my searches didn't turn up how to pronounce it, either.

I suppose in the future if I can't find a pronunciation I could ask in the LJ community 'little_details', or ask my flist or other communities.

I get how hearing a town's name mispronounced will jar someone who does know the correct pronounciation. I was at a meeting the other day when that happened and six other people in knee-jerk reaction corrected the speaker. And sometimes the same spelling is used for two different towns and they are pronounced radically different, just to further confuse the issue.

It's damn tricky, in other words, to get stuff like name places right, if you aren't already familiar with it and your research turns up nothing helpful.

I'd be interested in hearing if anybody has any other suggestions for pronunciation resources for tracking down words that aren't listed in the on-line dictionaries.

Laurie