Questions for Caroline

So you want to be a Senator from New York State?


John J. Pitney , Jr. has a few questions for you....

Here are some locations in Upstate NY. Pronounce them correctly.....

Colonie
Pulaski
Cairo
Schaghticoke
Greenwich
Watervliet
Corinth

For extra credit, please spell Schenectady.

The answers are:
kol-on-EE, not “colony”
puh-LAS-keye, not puh-LAS-kee
CARE-o, not KYE-ro or KAY-ro
SKAT-a-coke
GREEN-witch, not GREN-itch
water-va-LEET, not water-va-LAY
CORNth, not core-INTH

John J. Pitney, Jr. is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College.