I am listening to an interesting series of lectures on Victorian England, and one of the lectures has been about the key scientists of the age, including Charles Lyell, after whom a few features in Yosemite are named. But I was surprised to learn that he pronounced his name Li-YELL, with a clear accent on the second syllable.
I've always pronounced it, and heard it pronounced as if it were a cotton: Lisle.
Any other names you can think of Yosemite that have a similar confusion?
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