In the beginning, the train attendant announces New Canaan Connecticut and pronounces it as you would the word "connect." I've never heard it pronounced like that, and Dictionary.com indicates that it is not correct. Any idea why they would choose to have the actor say it like that?
I ride trains in New England a lot, and all the conductors over-enunciate and exaggerate their pronunciation. It's unnatural but it's very clear.
"You must sing him your prettiest songs, then perhaps he will want to marry you."
That's not all he pronounced wrong. When I was a New Yorker many years ago, commuter trains left from Grand Central TERMINAL. Grand Central Station was a stop on the old Lexington Avenue subway line.
There was a conductor on a Massachusetts commuter line who pronounced the name of a town as Con-cord, but the natives pronounced it Kawn-kid.
I assumed he was just trying to be folksy with the "Connect-icut" pronunciation, but I agree that calling it Grand Central Station is an obvious (minor) mistake. A conductor would know the correct terminology especially since he says the train originates from there.
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