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rsdsharp

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1. In the TV movie The Tuskegee Airmen

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat Jan 1, 2022, 03:39 PM

Jan 2022

Laurence Fishburne‘s character was from Ottumwa, Iowa. Now setting aside the fact that it was unlikely that an African American would have been from small town Iowa in that era, they constantly pronounced it as Otoomwa, rather than Ottumwa.

You would have thought they could have gotten the pronunciation right, especially since M*A*S*H’s Radar O’Reilly was also “from” Ottumwa.

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