Place names mispronounced - why.

[LakeCleElum]

It all depends on where you went to Sckol........

[yellowperil]

Antigua is often pronounced as if it had a Q in it, but really it's a G. So Anteega, not
AnteeQwa. That's how the locals say it "Anteega" It looks like a Q because of having a "u" after it.
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Having said that, The oxford dictionary says both ways can be acceptable, but the
former "anteega" is most often used.

[Tervuren]

Why do people pronounce the name name Richard as Dick? Why do people pronounce David as Dave or Davey, or Jenny from Jane?

You really want a fun one, try South Cackalackie instead of South Carolina.

[Don Ro]

Brits call Honda, Honder.

[Christien]

Originally Posted by BlueSkyJaunte

Versailles, KY: "Ver-sails"

No way. That's awful!

One that used to drive me crazy when I lived in Montreal and watched the weather report from Vermont - Montpelier, pronounced Mont-peel-ee-er. Ugh.

Or Calais, Maine. Call-us.

How hard is Mon-pell-yay, or Cal-ay to pronounce?

[recycled sixtie]

Where my mother comes from in the UK is near Norwich in Norfolk UK. There is a place in Norfolk called Happisburgh. Now to the uninitiated it would be called Happyisburg. To the locals it is called Hayesborough. Go figure! Norfolk in the US is called Norfolk but in Norfolk it is Nor.... and they say it with a straight face!
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[Don Ro]

"We're the girls from Norfuk...we don't smoke, we don't chew...Norfuk! Norfuk! Norfuk!
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Old joke.

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by Don Ro

"We're the girls from Norfuk...we don't smoke, we don't chew...Norfuk! Norfuk! Norfuk!
.
Old joke.

Very good Don. Duly noted!Filed in the memory bank for future use at a bawdy party.
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[David]

I went to P h u k e t , Thailand last year. Everyone seems to mispronouce it and Pelican won't let me type it. The locals say Poo-ket.

Some of my local favorites: Kuykendahl Road in Houston pronounced Kurk-en-doll.

Or Leakey, Texas pronouced Lake-ee. I was corrected by a nice old lady at a gas station who looked like our late-great governor, Ann Richards

[look 171]

Originally Posted by look 171

A little place by Venture call Port Hueneme. Anyone want to try? All you So Cal locals, give the boys a chance first. I had trouble with it just looking at it the first time. I was it in my teens on a deep sea fishing outing up there.

I wouldn't even try to pronounce some of those names in the Scottish Highlands.

No one?

Port Y-neem-me

[Drdogface]

Town in Ca. foothills... Placerville...named after Placer (short a) mining which was done back in the day...out of towers call it Plaaaacerville... long a.. Drives me nuts...

Sure Moses knows what I mean..

[look 171]

Originally Posted by Drdogface

Town in Ca. foothills... Placerville...named after Placer (short a) mining which was done back in the day...out of towers call it Plaaaacerville... long a.. Drives me nuts...

Sure Moses knows what I mean..

How are you suppose to say it? We say Plaacerville?

[Drdogface]

Originally Posted by look 171

How are you suppose to say it? We say Plaacerville?

With a short 'a'... as in the word 'at' or 'cat'...

[JJ 911SC]

Mispronounce by the Catholic if pronounce at all... Real Newfoundland city.

Spread Eagle

Dildo

South Dildo (no North one)

Come By Chance

Blow Me Down

Pothead

[Moses]

I have family from Purcell, Oklahoma. They pronounce it "Pur-SAIL" But then, we are Okies and have only been walking upright for about three generations.

[lane912]

Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese

Portland has a few..

Couch St. pronounced Kooch st.
Terwilliger - Ter willy ger

willamette-

In TX, Dallas is often prononced Dalice. Small town south of Dalice called Italy, TX. Pronounced It Lee.

[Aragorn]

Hearing new local reporters try and say Monongahela has always been funny. Sometimes they sound like porky pig repeating certain parts of the word. Most just give up and use the shortened phrase Mon.

I have always heard it pronounced Ma-non-ga-hell-ya of Ma-non-ga-heal-ya.

[Don Ro]

The hell, you say...

[2porscheguy]

Speaking of places with unusual or hard to pronounce names....this is a little OT but, apparently, it's a true story! In the UK

In the village of Erbum, in the town of Tillet, in the county of Herts,...a lady by the name of Linda Lykes owns a pub callled The Cock Inn. Here's her mailing address:

Linda Lykes,
The Cock Inn,
Erbum,
Tillet,
Herts



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