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Pronounce it Mackinac or Mackinaw?The area known as "Michilimackinac" was originally called "Michinnimakinong" by the Indians who were there when the French arrived from the North in 1715. The French corrupted the "n" sound with an "l" (The indian vocabulary did not contain an "l"). They also replaced the soft "sh" with the "ch". The ending was heard and pronounced as "aw" by the French, but in their spelling it became the "ac". The British who came from the South and defeated the French, heard the term pronounced as "aw" and also spelled it that way in English. Thus you will see on the map that Mackinaw City is in the Southern Peninsula and that all other names ending with "ac", with the exception of Fort Michilimackinac, are in the Northern Peninsula.
The original Indian word "Michinnimakinong", is translated as follows: MICH=great, INNI=connecting sound, MAKI=fault, NONG=land or place. The literal translation is the "land of the great fault". Mackinac Island has a large crevice or crack and the term was used by the early Indians as an identifying description to fellow travelers and voyagers.
So whichever way it is spelled, "aw" or "ac", it is always pronounced "MACKINAW"!The Mackinac Bridge, bridging the Straits of Mackinac, from Mackinaw City, to St. Ignace Michigan
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