Bumble1978
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- Ryan
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...for those who are not Pacific Northerwesterners it’s Pronounced YEAH-kih/keh-ma (maw).
Not Yah-KY-ma, not Yay-KEE-ma. Unlike a few of our other regional tongue twisters…this one is pretty straight foward.
Accent on the first vowel, swallow the -ki-, and ends like the word you’d use for the person Pa, or Pop, Grandad is married to… Ma…and in Ma & Pa Ingalls . Or as in a gaping mouth…a maw.
That is all. I’m super stoked for this partnership! ?
Thought it was only a coincidence like Toyota choosing Tacoma when naming their light-duty truck back in the day…another WA city. Don’t know the story as to why Yota chose Tacoma. I do know that WA State does tend to have a few sister cites with Japan, but could only be coincidence. ?
Turns out the Yakima brand as we know it today, makers of awesome roof racks and boxes, and such actually started as a small machine shop in Yakima, WA back in the 80’s. Since they’ve relocated twice to NorCal tiny coastal adventure-seaside town of Arcata, then finding a permanent home in Portland where HQ remains today.
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Not Yah-KY-ma, not Yay-KEE-ma. Unlike a few of our other regional tongue twisters…this one is pretty straight foward.
Accent on the first vowel, swallow the -ki-, and ends like the word you’d use for the person Pa, or Pop, Grandad is married to… Ma…and in Ma & Pa Ingalls . Or as in a gaping mouth…a maw.
That is all. I’m super stoked for this partnership! ?
Thought it was only a coincidence like Toyota choosing Tacoma when naming their light-duty truck back in the day…another WA city. Don’t know the story as to why Yota chose Tacoma. I do know that WA State does tend to have a few sister cites with Japan, but could only be coincidence. ?
Turns out the Yakima brand as we know it today, makers of awesome roof racks and boxes, and such actually started as a small machine shop in Yakima, WA back in the 80’s. Since they’ve relocated twice to NorCal tiny coastal adventure-seaside town of Arcata, then finding a permanent home in Portland where HQ remains today.
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