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It’s not oh-LEEN, it’s OH-lee-ann

April 22, 2015 By Scott Leave a Comment

We pronounce things weirdly here in upstate New York, but then some of them just have weird names to begin with. Take, for example, today’s featured city. “Olean” is not only a pleasant college town in the Southern Tier – it was also the brand name that Procter and Gamble came up with in the 1990s for its fat substitute that went into potato chips and other snack foods. (Remember those? The ones with the, er, unfortunate gastroinestinal side effects?)

Fortunately for the good folks in Cattaraugus County, the fake fat wasn’t pronounced the same way as their fine city. As you’ll hear on today’s IDs, Olean the city is pronounced “OH-lee-ann,” and hopefully today’s batch of IDs will leave you pleasantly satiated without any explosive after-effects. (Except, perhaps, a desire to also see some pictures of the stations featured, over at Tower Site of the Week.)

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