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What is the correct pronunciation of Ashokan from Jay Unger's "Ashokan Farewell?"

Question #105365. Asked by zbeckabee.
Last updated Aug 23 2016.

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This link doesn't give the pronunciation from "Ashokan Farewell," but from another source with "Ashokan" in it. It is pronounced UH-show-kin.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashokan_Field_Campus#FACTS

May 06 2009, 12:12 PM
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Most people recognize this beautiful tune as the "theme song" of the Ken Burns series 'The Civil War.'

"Ashokan Farewell was named for Ashokan, a camp in the Catskill Mountains not far from Woodstock, New York. It's the place where Molly Mason and I (Jay Unger) have run the Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps for adults and families since 1980.

Ashokan is the name of a town, most of which is now under a very beautiful and magical body of water called the Ashokan Reservoir. I've heard it pronounced a-shó-kun, a-shó-kan, or sometimes ásh-o-kán. The reservoir provides drinking water for New York City one hundred miles to the south."

link http://jayandmolly.com/ashokan-farewell/ashokan-farewell-faq/

Response last updated by Terry on Aug 23 2016.
May 06 2009, 9:52 PM
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According to PronounceNames.com the emphasis is on the second syllable: uh-SHO-kun. They have a YouTube video giving the audio pronunciation and a written example. It's at:
link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSzfqjMeZro

Apr 24 2014, 11:32 AM
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