oregon

Oregon natives and other Westerners pronounce the state name’s last syllable to sound like “gun,” not “gone.”

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Definitions

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• n  a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific

News & Articles

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• Oregon pair face federal charges
  An Oregon couple are accused of buying a 9mm Luger for a white-supremacist felon who went on a multistate murder spree that played out partly in Linn and Benton counties.
  June 15, 2013 - Albany Democrat-Herald
• Oregon's Prandini, Johnson receive Pac-12 awards
  Oregon freshman Jenna Prandini was named the Pac-12 women’s track and field newcomer of the year.
  June 15, 2013 - Albany Democrat-Herald
• Oregon boy, 15, accused of raping young girl
  PILOT ROCK, Ore. (AP) -- Police arrested a 15-year-old Eastern Oregon boy on suspicion of sex crimes against a girl younger than 12. The youth from the small community of Pilot Rock faces charges of rape, sodomy, using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct and sexual assault of an animal. Umatilla County court records do not indicate if he has entered a plea. A judge set his bail at ...
  June 15, 2013 - KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland