Oregon: The always horribly mispronounced state

Oregon as in "Or-egg-in" or "Ory-gun"... NEVER "Ory-GON".... or worse yet.... "Or-egg-go-n."

It rains often. Stop whining, it builds character. And you get to wear cute rubber boots.
We get our gas pumped for us. Thousands of crappy minimum wage jobs right there.
Are you a Duck or a Beaver? I'm a platypus.

The mountains are magnificent, the water's always fresh,
But best of all...THERE IS NO SALES TAX. Can I get a quack quack.

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Permalink Reply by Emily Joy (Lulu the Limabeast) on December 31, 2009 at 9:09pm

I hate it when the non-oregonians pernounce it OrEEgon...that just makes me mad XD

Permalink Reply by David K Hite on January 6, 2010 at 3:28pm

Ha, platypus. Good idea! For those of us who don't really care...

Permalink Reply by Joan Kilna (Arboreal Octopus) on March 28, 2010 at 12:32am

I've also heard AIR-a-gun. How come no one ever mentions that we also have beaches and the ocean?

K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on March 12, 2014 at 3:38pm

March 12, 2014 - - - as part of the GART clean-up project, the following duplicate discussion threads on this state have been consolidated here (the original state thread) and then closed or deleted.

Welcome to Orygun

Posted by Salena97202 on January 21, 2012 at 4:29pm

Hello...? Any Portlandians out there?

Reply by Alexandra on January 21, 2012 at 4:55pm

You bet! Welcome to the Kommunity fellow Portlander!

Reply by randy (dratigeolf) on February 11, 2012 at 10:21pm

yep there is

Reply by Chrissy (CJ Dragonne) on February 18, 2012 at 10:31pm

I am a fairly new converted Portlandian!! yay

I am original Texan, though. o.~

Reply by Paige (Chekalynx) on February 12, 2013 at 9:12pm

Bald peak close enough? I feel like the surrounding suburban and rural areas can be grouped into a "portland" category.

Reply by Jon on April 7, 2013 at 5:36pm

Gotta love it here!

Reply by Jonathan Smith on May 16, 2013 at 3:17pm

I'm a Portlander living in Gresham, lol.

Reply by Tyler Thomas (double bear Tiger) on May 19, 2013 at 10:21am

man portland is the best, i love living here

Reply by Claira (GeeButtersnaps) on May 22, 2013 at 8:46pm

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Oregon, anyone

Posted by Emily(It Was The Cat) on September 29, 2012 at 10:39pm

Reply by Avarie Fitzgerald (Strix) on November 13, 2012 at 2:38am

Yaaa boiiii! The greatest state of all!

Permalink Reply by charles gohn (rougarou) on May 20, 2014 at 11:30pm

oregon the green

Permalink Reply by ButterflyWolf on January 27, 2015 at 1:39am

I'm from there too, I love it here wish Rhett and Link would come here.

Permalink Reply by Maddie King on May 21, 2014 at 7:50pm

Another Portlander here. I agree, Oregon is not a shape, like a polygon. But I hear ppl mispronounce Willamette weirdly too. Also, it's got the best microbrews. RCTID!

Permalink Reply by Brendan Ingram (OsoPescado) on November 8, 2014 at 3:01pm

Oregon :D

Permalink Reply by Peter Ellis on November 17, 2014 at 4:34pm

Just gonna throw this out there: anybody else around here live in Salem? It's not that bad of a town, honest!