Is the C silent in Connecticut?
Connecticut has a silent middle “c” and the stress is on the 2nd syllable. Illinois may look French but it’s doesn’t follow French pronunciation. The pronunciation is a truncated version, more like “Marel’nd”, pronouncing “mare” the British way but with an audible “r”. Here’s an audio example.
How do you pronounce Connecticut?
Why is Connecticut pronounced?
Connecticut isn’t an English word. It’s an Anglicization of a Mohegan word, Quinetucket. So Co-net-i-cut is probably the closest we can get to the pronunciation of the word in the Mohegan language. It’s actually incorrect to pronounce it with the C in the middle.
How is 2020 pronounced?
The year 2020 will be “twenty-twenty,” and the year 2115 will be “twenty-one-fifteen.”