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Regarding the bridge, that is copied and pasted from the Bridge Authority.

It's not uncommon to alter pronunciations to ease understanding different locations or reflect how they independently evolved linguistically.
Detroit isn't pronounced how it originally was founded.


Louisville is a good example of differentiating towns by pronouncing it: lewis, lou-a, louie.
You had me wondering, so...

https://visitmichiganupnort...s_michigan_pronounce

quote Whether it is spelled Mackinaw as in Mackinaw City or Mackinac as in Mackinac Island, they are pronounced the same way: Mack-i-naw. Why? It is because of the area's rich history with the Native Americans, French, and British. The area was named Michilimackinac by the Native Americans and when the French built a fort here in 1715, they recorded the name with a "c" on the end as a French word with an "aw" sound would be pronounced. Many guests to the area mispronounce Mackinac by saying "Mack-i-nack." The "c" on the end of this word is instead pronounced as "aw." The word became shortened to Mackinac. The fort was moved on the winter ice to the island across the straits which became known as Mackinac Island. [b]Edgar Conkling was the founder of the city in 1857 and he changed the name to Mackinaw to reflect how the word actually sounds. Thus, in this part of Michigan, there is Mackinac Island, the Mackinac Bridge, the Straits of Mackinac, Mackinaw City, and the Icebreaker Mackinaw and they are all pronounced the same way: Mack-i-naw. There is no Nack in Mackinaw or "aw"! Pronounce it Mack-i-knack and you'll give yourself away as a tourist who doesn't know how to pronounce the place that you're visiting.....[/b]

I think they just called you a tourist?

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This changes the Vineyard Wind project status from "close to approval" by the Biden administration to "approved" by the Biden administration.

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Wind turbines near Block Island, offshore from the State of Rhode Island--the former "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." This is one of only two offshore wind farms operating in the United States. The boat gives a sense of the size of these offshore turbines. (Chang Lee for The New York Times.)

"Biden Administration Approves Nation’s First Major Offshore Wind Farm"
Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman for the New York Times; May 11, 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/202...imate-wind-farm.html

The first paragraphs of a longer report:

quote Construction on the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm is expected to begin this summer, after the Biden administration gave final approval Tuesday to a project it hopes will herald a new era of wind energy across the United States. The Vineyard Wind project calls for up to 84 turbines to be installed in the Atlantic Ocean about 12 nautical miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. Together, they could generate about 800 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 400,000 homes. The project would dwarf the scale of the country’s two existing wind farms, off the coasts of Virginia and Rhode Island. Together, they produce just 42 megawatts of electricity. In addition to Vineyard Wind, a dozen other offshore wind projects along the East Coast are now under federal review. The Interior Department has estimated that by the end of the decade, some 2,000 turbines could be churning in the wind along the coast from Massachusetts to North Carolina.

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