So... how is it pronounced?
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You're right,,,,,,the experts are wrong.
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You are correct and in fact the other night Rebecca corrected the incorrect pronunciation on air but they continued to pronounce it incorrectly. The correct pronunciation is QUIN-e-pi-ack
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TV commentators have been mispronouncing it for many years. I think it's one of those names that gets mispronounced so often that the mispronounciation becomes the standard and nobody gives it a second thought.
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The best part was that, as soon as they won the game, the announcer started pronouncing it correctly. SMH.
The then-president of Quinnipiac was my neighbor growing up in the 1960s. He put the emphasis on the first syllable. Yje first i was pronounced more or less as in "pin", second like "uh" and the third "eek" (without the k). Of course, Nils was Norwegian, so he could have been wrong. But that's also the way I heard it elsewhere at the time.