The Gold Coast Standard and Darien Real Estate

What’s in a name…..Darien,CT,

Even those  actively looking for a Darien home have asked me, “What is the correct way to say the name of the town?” Dictionaries list the pronunciation as “DAIRy-yen” but most of Dariens’ 19,000 residents  pronounce their town name as “dairy-ANN, like Maryann.

Similar confusion surrounds the pronunciation of the neighborhoods of Tokeneke and Noroton. For the record, it’s “TOW-keh-neek” and “Nor-O-ton”.

There- now you’re a local.

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