Oregon natives and other Westerners pronounce the state name’s last syllable to sound like “gun,” not “gone.”
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Indeed, residents of the State of Oregon, and students of US geography, pronounce the last syllable as gun, not gone. However, residents of the State of Wisconsin, and especially the Wisconsin city of Oregon, pronounce the last syllable as gone, not gun.
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