With thousands of tourists set to visit Maine this summer, we figured it would be helpful to let folks know the correct way to say Mount Desert Island.
With thousands of tourists set to visit Maine this summer, we figured it would be helpful to let folks know the correct way to say Mount Desert Island.
With thousands of tourists set to visit Maine this summer, we figured it would be helpful to let folks know the correct way to say Mount Desert Island.
With thousands of tourists set to visit Maine this summer, we figured it would be helpful to let folks know the correct way to say Mount Desert Island.
It s easy enough to do in a state like Maine, which has dozens of geographic names with foreign spellings and pronunciations. And with thousands of tourists set to visit Maine and Acadia National Park this summer we figured it would be helpful to prevent a travel travesty by letting folks know the correct way to say Mount Desert Island. Is it Mount
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Widely debated for centuries, one of the best explanations I have seen for the valid vernacular comes to us by way of a blog.
According to All Things Maine, there s a history behind how the name is supposed to be said. Quoting an argument from the late 1800s, the piece proposes the correct pronunciation stems from French navigator and explorer, Samuel de Champlain s description of this lonely island: