I believe the Indian word from which the name came was
pronounced more like vegemite. But most current California
inhabitants use yo-sem-it-ee.
-jeff
My California elementary education told us that the Yoh-suh-mite
pronunciation was brought to the state by all those ignorant
easterners when any Californian knew the Native Americans said
yoh-sem-it-ee. That is also the pronunciation given by the rangers
in the park who are sticklers for correctness and by the Random House
Dictionary of the American Language.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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