• xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    Oregon has weird liquor laws. Taprooms that only sell beer and can’t serve spirits are actually pretty common, and they’ll have fancy beers brewed in a room behind the counter. (Most of them like to highlight the existence of the brewery by making it visible to the rest of the room.) People don’t usually call em “beer bars” but that’s exactly what they are.

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      You can definitely tell it’s a non-native by what they call those places

      Also how they pronounce some of the smaller cities

      Like Chelatche

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          Haven’t heard anyone say chelatchie out loud before, but I live in the pnw and I would guess it would be pronounced cheh-latch-ee, which is similar to how “Wenatchee”, a pnw city, is pronounced (not helpful but interesting nonetheless).

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            Very close, sha-latch-ee

            No worries though

            It’s a really small place and the closer one lives to it the more likely I’ve seen people be able to get it

            Spokane is a fun one to hear people say though when they’re from a few states away

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                Basically

                More like Spo-Can

                I’ve heard people say it as wrong as Spo-Cane before which was pretty rough

                The easiest way to spot someone from out of the area is when it rains, ask them about the weather. We’ve got a lot of words for rain up here in Washington, so what they pick will say a lot.