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Oregon doesn't have an accent, but we have ridiculously lazy diction. You may pretty much assume you're in the right if you lose a syllable in most words. It's not 'Beaver-Ton,' it's "Beaverd'n." "Portl'n," "Oryg'n" and of course 'Warrenton' is "Warnt'n"
As to Willamette, I bet the embarrassing, "wrong" way of pronouncing it is actually the right way, but again, no one cares. It's been pronounced "Wi-LAM-ette" for as long as I've been alive, so there it is.
ORY-GUN. Not ORE-uh-ghinn. Nice try, Washingtonian.
Col-um-beeyah. No 'YAY". Quit being silly.
As a 5th generation Oregonian, I should know.