A little help in solving a dispute!

[sportsradiotn]

Spell out Unaka how you would pronounce it. We are having a dispute in the office here in West Tennessee. Thanks.

[HTV]

You - nay - kah

[sportsradiotn]

Thanks for the help!

[rosco80]

its u-knock-A

[TankTalk]

During my radio show in the mid 90s, I always pronounced it "U naked." Hope that helps.

[hablogarbaje]

its u-knock-A

 

Wrong. The first poster was correct. It has the long A sound in the middle. You-nay-kah.

[krichunaka]

Howbout........2004 State Champions?

 

Well, sounds good to me.

 

 

YOU NAAAK UH

[splainshornet]

It's STATE CHAMPS.

 

Little ole Unaka up in the Mountains went and took that trophy back to Carter Co. I saw you guys driving through Knoxville on Sunday I blew my horn to congratulate you all.

[redbirdfan]

You - nay - kah

The above is correct, I talked with one of the players for Unaka Rusty Chambers' dad on press row during the opening round games and that's how he pronounced it.

 

 

SportsRadioTN, how would Roy D pronounce it??

[blacksheep]

its u-knock-A

this is the correct pronounciation and there is a long line of history behind it. back in the early 1900s ricky steadman was the chaplain of the town square. there was a hearing about how the name should be pronounced. the "jury" or majority of the ppl in attendence voted for it to be pronounced yoo-knock-kah. from the founding of Unaka until this time there was a big confusion about how it should be said. people were still set in there ways and would not change how they said the name. with all the differentiations the mayor wanted to change the name back to yoo-nay-kah. the sherriff and the chaplain did not think this would be a good idea to go against the way the majority voted. the populous heard of this and the mayor was assassinated later that year. the mayors assassination was thought to be a result of the disagreement on the name. the assissanator was executed and the name was then changed back to yoo-nay-kah in honor of the mayor. these ppl were serious about their name. thought this would be a good history lesson for the day.

GO YOONAYKAH

[MentalTownBaller]

The U-NA-KED Jaybirds!

[Bighurt]

I would pronounce it - You - nay - kah, state champs.