>> Few
>>customer service or shipping people I talk to on the phone ever get
>>Millinocket right on the first try;
>
>Is Millinocket pronounced differently from how it is spelled? I've
>been saying "Mill-in-ocket", with the "ocket" as in "rocket."

That's close; the middle syllable is usually sort of semi-elided, with the vowel stuck on the end of "mill" as a schwa and the "n" attached to the remainder of the word. For some reason customer service people always want to give it either a long O or a French ending, as in cabernet. Or they just go completely off the rails and it becomes some kind of godawful transporter accident*. I don't really know how that happens.

--G.
* And that, children, is why I'm frankly not bothered if there's never a Blu-Ray release of the Director's Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
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