{"id":6694,"date":"2012-08-10T12:20:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=6694"},"modified":"2012-08-10T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:21:16","slug":"a-few-portland-name-pronunciations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/a-few-portland-name-pronunciations\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Portland Name Pronunciations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/0810121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6696\" style=\"border: 5px solid transparent;\" title=\"081012\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/0810121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>Returning the rental to Enterprise after a day of wine travel in the Willamette Valley, Kathy and I asked if they would give us a ride to our son\u2019s house. An Enterprise employee asked where does he live and I responded on Couch Street. I pronounced Couch as\u00a0 \u201ckouCH\u201d, a piece of furniture. A discussion followed about Portland names. Couch is pronounced \u201ckooch\u201d and rhymes with pooch. The street was named after John H. Couch, one of the founders of Portland, Oregon. John was from Massachusetts and captained a vessel named Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about a few other Portland names that are frequently mispronounced. Glisan Street is often mispronounced. It is only a few blocks away from the site of the 2012 Wine Bloggers Conference. Glisan is pronounced as \u201cGLEE-san\u201d. It was named after Rodney Glisan, who happened to be born in Maryland. He married, Elizabeth, the daughter of John H. Couch.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most mispronounced university in the country is Willamette University. Wine people will undoubtedly need to pronounce the word Willamette when referring to Oregon\u2019s world famous wine region. It is pronounced as \u201cWill-AM-it\u201d. It rhymes with a mild expletive.\u00a0The Willamette River is just a few blocks from the WBC 12 Conference site.<\/p>\n<p>As we prepare to get local with Oregon\u2019s wines, we can also get local with a few pronunciations.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nTerry<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"A Few Portland Name Pronunciations\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=6694\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning the rental to Enterprise after a day of wine travel in the Willamette Valley, Kathy and I asked if they would give us a ride to our son\u2019s house. An Enterprise employee asked where does he live and I responded on Couch Street. I pronounced Couch as\u00a0 \u201ckouCH\u201d, a piece of furniture. A discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[2675,2676,58,975,976],"class_list":["post-6694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-couch","tag-glisan","tag-oregon","tag-portland","tag-willamette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6698,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions\/6698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}