How do Oregonians pronounce North Beach (as in North Beach in Lane County, OR)?

It’s a spondee.

^awesome.

@gailcalled What do you call it when people in the Midwest shift the stress to the first syllable when it should be on the second? In-surance, e-quator, and so forth?

Here you go…

^thank you!

@Nullo; Dactyl. it’s a common metrical form; you find the examples you cite weird because they change the expected meter. To me it has a country bumpkin sound to it. Randy Quaid often plays parts where he talks like that.

“Jacqueline Kennedy” is a double dactyl.

@johnpowell: Your link forced me to (Mac 10.8.1, Safari) force-quit.

@gailcalled :: Same set-up here and it works for me. You could have a slow connection. It will just display a white screen while it downloads the entire mp3. Maybe that gave the illusion that your browser wasn’t doing anything.

@johnpowell-I do have, under the best of circumstances, a slow connection (medium DSL) and a cheap, corner-cutting, understaffed, monopolistic server. We all hate them.—

You might be right but I am not going to try again.

What was the gist?

I said Oregon and North Beach properly a few times. The link was to audio.