cheney pronunciation

[Grant Smith]

>" Journalist Pete Williams, who worked as a spokesman at the Pentagon when
>Cheney was defense secretary under President George Bush, says the name is
>pronounced CHEE-NEE, not CHAY-NEE. Cheney, the Republican vice presidential
>nominee, later said Williams is correct."
>
>http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/ELECTION_notebook001204.ht
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>
>Jessie Emerson

The town in which I live is pronounced CHEE-NEE and is named after the 19C
railroad executive Benjamin P. Cheney, whose family still uses the same
pronunciation.

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