You're Pronouncing It Wrong: A Guide for Newcomers to Seattle

What "Puyallup," "Leschi," and "geoducks" are, and how to say them.by Lester BlackSeattle is full of verbal land mines.Botch the pronunciation of Leschi or Duwamish, and you'll immediately give away the fact that you only recently moved here. With places like Tukwila, Puyallup, and Sequim, this area can feel like a foreign land for us English speakers.The reality—of course—is exactly the opposite: English speakers are the foreigners in this part of the world. In a twisted turn of his