Talk:Versailles, Kentucky

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Can someone replace this sentence with the truth, or help us disambiguate this 'George Bush'?: "Versailles was founded on June 23, 1792, on 80 acres (320,000 m2) of land owned by George Bush, at the time a child whose assets were effectively controlled by his guardian, Major Marquis Calmes.". Thanks!

Pronunciation

Intending no offense, can someone tell me how this town came to be pronounced the way it is, especially since it was named after the French city? Thanks.

I removed some crap about the pronunciation due to "United States dislike of France". What crap! Anyway, American towns with French names always take a phonetic pronunciation; it's just the way things were done when towns were founded in the 18th and 19th centuries. Paris, Texas is not called "ParEE"; Bourbon County, Kentucky is not "BorBONH"; New Orleans, Louisiana isn't "New OrlayANH" (much less "Nouveau Orléans").

(65.209.26.33 (talk) 18:47, 10 January 2008 (UTC)) (Kejo13 (talk) 18:50, 10 January 2008 (UTC))

Likewise, Detroit is not day-TWAH. Heck, it's surprising we don't pronounce the s's in Des Moines. Schoop (talk) 18:45, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Also, Berlin, Wisconsin is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable. Robomanx (talk) 08:32, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the pronunciation, I went to the historical society and went through tons of microfilm, and there is an old article from an old Woodford Sun circa 1915 mentioning the pronunciation of the name being intentional by previous generations. So it could be said that was at least part of the reason for the mispronunciation that exists until today. Manteno (talk) 08:30, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

O Ye Jigs & Juleps!

According to this reference, the author of this book was writing about Versailles, KY, not "leesville". This may be a good person to add to the list of notable residents.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 19:00, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

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