re: Let's Discuss Arkansas Towns

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What you're saying doesn't even make sense.

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I don't know if he's right or wrong, but what he's saying most certainly makes sense. I was born and raised in Fayette, Alabama. Everybody there, and everybody who has ever lived there, pronounces it -Fet-. An occasional Birmingham weatherman will come along and pronounce it Fay-et, but James Spann and most others say Fet as it should be.

ETA: Let me amend that. You are right. It absolutely doesn't make sense, relative to how it should be pronounced, because its French. But it IS pronounced that way, and LaFyatte in Chambers county might be the same.