Proper Prounciation of "Air Depot Road"

[SSEiYah]

I've heard people pronounce Air Depot Road as "Air Depp-poh road", like Johnny Depp. I thought this was a little weird.

I always thought it was pronounced "deep-poh", such as on this commercial from the Home Depot:





So which is the proper way to say the street name? Deppo or Deepo?

[ctchandler]

SSEIYah,
I live .3 miles from Air Depp O and have lived here since 1975, but I really don't know the correct pronunciation. That's just the way I pronounce it.
C. T.

[boscorama]

Air Dee' poe.

[Prunepicker]

I can't believe this is an issue.

[Jim Kyle]

To-May-Toe or To-Mah-Toe; take your pick. Military usually pronounces it Depp-o and the rest of us say Deep-o...

[Prunepicker]

to-may-toe or to-mah-toe; take your pick. Military usually pronounces it
depp-o and the rest of us say deep-o...

like!

[foodiefan]

To-May-Toe or To-Mah-Toe; take your pick. Military usually pronounces it Depp-o and the rest of us say Deep-o...

like x2

[Prunepicker]

I've just spent a few moments studying how I pronounce Depot. I say
Dee-poh. However, when speaking French I say Dep-oh. I believe it's a
French word.

[Snowman]

I've just spent a few moments studying how I pronounce Depot. I say
Dee-poh. However, when speaking French I say Dep-oh. I believe it's a
French word.

Internationally, Dep-oh seems much more common, which is probably why the military says it that way

[Prunepicker]

Internationally, Dep-oh seems much more common, which is probably why
the military says it that way

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[ljbab728]

I've just spent a few moments studying how I pronounce Depot. I say
Dee-poh. However, when speaking French I say Dep-oh. I believe it's a
French word.

Actually, this one time that you're correct. The french, depot, means deposit.

[ctchandler]

I was talking to my friend in London today (looking forward to her visit this month and next) and I asked her about how she pronounces it and she said "depp-oh" not "deep-oh". She also sent this youtube link.
C. T.
How to Pronounce Depot - YouTube

[Wambo36]

To-May-Toe or To-Mah-Toe; take your pick. Military usually pronounces it Depp-o and the rest of us say Deep-o...

I never really thought about it, but this makes sense. I grew up in MWC as the child of a retired serviceman. Around the house it was Dep-o, but I have heard it also pronounced Deep-o forever. I can't really vote in the poll because I just realized that I use them both, although Dep-o is the more prevalent.

[JesStang]

To-May-Toe or To-Mah-Toe; take your pick. Military usually pronounces it Depp-o and the rest of us say Deep-o...

That's funny you say that because I work on Tinker and do, in fact, say "dep-oh" when referring to work but Air Depot Blvd. has always been said "deep-oh".

[boscorama]

Must be a local thing.

[RadicalModerate]

Must be a local thing.

Yup. It is. =)
Even if Air Depot Road" exists only in the imaginations and memories of what it represents
And isn't in OKC "proper" . . .

[Snowman]

It seems like official sources and the news always went with Air Dep-oh, I just always guessed it was the air force pronunciation, not really in my part of town so that is why I went with that. Though my natural tendency if I had not ever heard that would have been to say like deep o

[BG918]

Kind of like how some pronounce Tecumseh Rd in Norman Tay-cum-suh and some say Tay-cum-see.

I say Air Dee-poh but Depp-oh is pretty common.

[Snowman]

Kind of like how some pronounce Tecumseh Rd in Norman Tay-cum-suh and some say Tay-cum-see.

I say Air Dee-poh but Depp-oh is pretty common.

Except Tecumseh is a proper name and Tay-cum-see is a mispronunciation of that

[Jim Kyle]

Except Tecumseh is a proper name and Tay-cum-see is a mispronunciation of that

Over the years I've enjoyed lots of mispronounciations of place names, on radio and TV. For example: MUSK-o-GEE, ta-LEAK-wah, BAT-i-est, or my favorite most recent from an imported local-TV weatherman: hoe-BART.

[KayneMo]

Over the years I've enjoyed lots of mispronounciations of place names, on radio and TV. For example: MUSK-o-GEE, ta-LEAK-wah, BAT-i-est, or my favorite most recent from an imported local-TV weatherman: hoe-BART.

On TV, I've heard Chickasha pronounced "shih-KAY-shuh." Lol.

[QUAPAW5]

Except Tecumseh is a proper name and Tay-cum-see is a mispronunciation of that

It depends which side of the river you On ...N or S

[KayneMo]

I say "deep-oh."

And for Tecumseh, I say "teh-cum-suh."

[OKCisOK4me]

Air DEE-poe.

[betts]

Depp-o

Even though I pronounce the noun deep-o, I've always heard the street pronounced depp-o so that's how my mind sees it. Interesting.