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Denver doesn’t have a famous accent like Boston, where they drop their R’s, or Wisconsin, where they put your melk in a beg, or the south, with their drawls and y’all’s. But Denver does have a particular way of saying local street names, and that probably won’t change, even if the pronunciation is wrong.
With the history of Latin America, Native American tribes and American expansion converging in Denver, the street names reflect different languages and cultures that have come through here. Most Denver locals agree on how to say “Alameda” or “Wynkoop,” and they can argue all day about how they should be saying “Galapago” or “Zuni.” At the end of the day, though, most of us are probably still saying Denver’s street names wrong…or at least not the way they were originally pronounced…