Ignorant local pronounciations that stick...

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  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,899 Member
    when someone pronounces it "expresso" i die a little inside.

    and this is not pronounced like the city in Texas.

    HOUSTON-STREET-SIGN.jpg

    How-Stun
  • americangirlok
    americangirlok Posts: 228 Member
    Mine isn't really a local word that's said incorrectly, but loose and lose drive me nuts seeing it in the written word. I seriously did see a sign that said "want to loose weight call me!" And I was laughing to myself "Oh no, the weights have been loosed!"
  • RavenLibra
    RavenLibra Posts: 1,737 Member
    AX a question? go to the LIE-BARRY?
  • IHateThinkingOfAUsername
    IHateThinkingOfAUsername Posts: 568 Member
    Th/f/v confusions here.
  • Rogiefreida
    Rogiefreida Posts: 567 Member
    Lots of native American names in Washington...all butchered on a regular basis.

    Snohomish, Wahkiakum, Puyallup, etc.
  • gym_king_carlie
    gym_king_carlie Posts: 528 Member
    I am from Hull, Yorkshire, England, but in Hull, our accent/dialect, we don't pronounce the letter 'H' so people from here say ULL' even our football (soccer) and Rugby teams promote merchandise branded 'ULL' I don't find it ignorant personally, I understand some gripes with pronunciations of certain places, like completely changing the spelling.
  • IHateThinkingOfAUsername
    IHateThinkingOfAUsername Posts: 568 Member
    here's one that drives my wife nuts... Lieutenant... IN the US.. LOO-TEN-ANT.. In the British Commonwealth... LEF-TEN-ANT.
    Or any country where English is taught the British way.
    Maybe I've watched Forrest Gump too much. I say lootenant.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I live in Iowa... and we have several towns with issues

    Nevada - pronounced ne-VAY-duh

    We have one of those in Missouri too! Same awful pronunciation. Also in Oklahoma there's a Miami with the pronunciation of "My-AM-uh" which many insist is correct Native American pronunciation.
  • Debbjones
    Debbjones Posts: 278 Member

    I'm curious... How do you pronounce it correctly? I need some phonetics here.

    kike in doll

    So I looked up the pronunciation and this is what my search returned...

    kerr ken doll
    Kuy - sounds like 'Ker' (rhymes with "her")
    kendahl = ken doll, like Barbie's Boyfriend

    So" kike in doll" may not be correct... :-) Heck what do I know, I never saw or heard the name/word until now! LOL!
  • White_n_Nerdy
    White_n_Nerdy Posts: 22 Member
    There's a whole slew of Wisconsin cities that no one can pronounce. Look up the YouTube video of Texans pronouncing Wisconsin cities and you'll see what I mean.

    There are two in Wisconsin that drive me up a wall. Inability to pronounce the "th" in that / there / those / etc. "Dat der truck." Those aren't words! The other one is inserting "r's" where the don't belong. Especially when "wash" becomes "worsh."
  • IHateThinkingOfAUsername
    IHateThinkingOfAUsername Posts: 568 Member
    I am from Hull, Yorkshire, England, but in Hull, our accent/dialect, we don't pronounce the letter 'H' so people from here say ULL' even our football (soccer) and Rugby teams promote merchandise branded 'ULL' I don't find it ignorant personally, I understand some gripes with pronunciations of certain places, like completely changing the spelling.
    You (as in people from Hull) can't pronounce the split digraph o-e correctly.
    Coke becomes curk
    Made my giggle the first time I went to McDonald's at St. Andrews Quay.
  • AglaeaC
    AglaeaC Posts: 1,974 Member

    I'm curious... How do you pronounce it correctly? I need some phonetics here.

    kike in doll

    So I looked up the pronunciation and this is what my search returned...

    kerr ken doll
    Kuy - sounds like 'Ker' (rhymes with "her")
    kendahl = ken doll, like Barbie's Boyfriend

    So" kike in doll" may not be correct...! Heck what do I know, I never saw or heard the name/word until now! LOL!
    "Da(rn)" would be a better word to describe the (da)hl sound, as Brits pronounce doll quite differently from Americans.
  • dpwellman
    dpwellman Posts: 3,271 Member
    Lazy is probably more germane than ignorant. Anything French screws everyone up, it seems.

    Lafayette
    de Montbrun anglicanized as Demonbreun, and none of the local pronunciations are even CLOSE to the original-- most popular being "dee-MUM-bree-un". Took me forever to figure out what the hell street people were talking about.
    Bâton Rouge I think about 1/3 of people I hear say this get this one right. . .
  • Nerdybreisawesome
    Nerdybreisawesome Posts: 359 Member
    Everyone is different so I don't really care. More important things in life to worry about.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member

    I'm curious... How do you pronounce it correctly? I need some phonetics here.

    kike in doll

    So I looked up the pronunciation and this is what my search returned...

    kerr ken doll
    Kuy - sounds like 'Ker' (rhymes with "her")
    kendahl = ken doll, like Barbie's Boyfriend

    So" kike in doll" may not be correct... :-) Heck what do I know, I never saw or heard the name/word until now! LOL!


    http://www.houstoniamag.com/news-and-profiles/city-and-region/articles/whats-in-a-street-name-may-2013
    Kuykendahl

    Kirk-en-doll. The absolute gold standard when it comes to separating the Houstonian from the non-.
  • AglaeaC
    AglaeaC Posts: 1,974 Member
    Okay, here's one for the Brits: Gloucestershire. I think I recall it without the "ce" in there, but I'm not sure.

    There are many tricky areas in London, too. Marylebone looks to be read Mary-le-bone, but I vaguely remember Maryl-bone.
  • SrMaggalicious
    SrMaggalicious Posts: 495 Member
    Boston: anything with an 'r'....

    'cah' (car)
    'Havidd' (Harvard)
    'pahk' (park)....

    I could go on for days....

    ETA: 'mi-yenn' (mine)
  • IHateThinkingOfAUsername
    IHateThinkingOfAUsername Posts: 568 Member
    My grandma used to criticise my pronunciation of 'properly' (prop-ley)... My solution - stop saying it around her and use 'correctly' instead. Lol
  • dpwellman
    dpwellman Posts: 3,271 Member
    Oh. I forgot!
    bruschetta - dated a woman who actually got in TROUBLE at work (waitress in upstate WI) for pronouncing it correctly. One would think restaurateurs would know better
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    Apparently in the mid-west they have problems with French pronunciations of French words. Particularly in the names of their cities and towns.

    I'm looking at you Versailles, Indiana (Ver-sales)

    How would you pronounce Des Moines?
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
    when someone pronounces it "expresso" i die a little inside.

    and this is not pronounced like the city in Texas.

    HOUSTON-STREET-SIGN.jpg

    I only know this (How-stun) from an episode of Young and the Restless.

    I'm going to add gyro, because I used to call them (jy-rows) until I was corrected by a Greek man after I ordered one. So I started calling them (yee-rows), then I went to a Greek restaurant and ordered one, and he called it (jy-row)! Make up yer damn minds!
  • CarolinaGirlinVA
    CarolinaGirlinVA Posts: 1,508 Member
    This isn't an incorrect pronunciation, but I dislike when people refer to a city by saying just the Area code like they are some hard gangster or something.

    Ugh, they do that in Virginia Beach all the time! Drives me nuts.
  • IHateThinkingOfAUsername
    IHateThinkingOfAUsername Posts: 568 Member
    Okay, here's one for the Brits: Gloucestershire. I think I recall it without the "ce" in there, but I'm not sure.

    There are many tricky areas in London, too. Marylebone looks to be read Mary-le-bone, but I vaguely remember Maryl-bone.

    Yep glos-ter-shire. Same as Leicestershire -les-ter-shire.
    My husband and I both say mar-lee-bone.
  • blukitten
    blukitten Posts: 922 Member
    There is a guy from Boston in my office and he constantly says Jalapeeeeeeno or JalapEno,, I want to tell him thats not how you say it. Its JalapeNo y-ish accent on the N,, even though it doesnt have the ~ over it,, its stil JalapeNo. (halapenyo)

    or "all up en ya" as my hubby likes to pronounce it :laugh:

    I speak french, spanish, and some German so I notice a lot of mispronunciation. :smile:
  • ScottyNoHotty
    ScottyNoHotty Posts: 1,957 Member
    Warsh for wash

    car-mel for car-a-mel

    Illinoisssssss with the S

    and don't get me started on Des Moines....
  • AglaeaC
    AglaeaC Posts: 1,974 Member
    Oh. I forgot!
    bruschetta - dated a woman who actually got in TROUBLE at work (waitress in upstate WI) for pronouncing it correctly. One would think restaurateurs would know better
    How's the incorrect way? Brusch (German, like English brush) - etta?
  • dpwellman
    dpwellman Posts: 3,271 Member
    There's a whole slew of Wisconsin cities that no one can pronounce.
    Yep!
  • AglaeaC
    AglaeaC Posts: 1,974 Member
    Okay, here's one for the Brits: Gloucestershire. I think I recall it without the "ce" in there, but I'm not sure.

    There are many tricky areas in London, too. Marylebone looks to be read Mary-le-bone, but I vaguely remember Maryl-bone.

    Yep glos-ter-shire. Same as Leicestershire -les-ter-shire.
    My husband and I both say mar-lee-bone.
    Ah ha! Thanks :flowerforyou:
  • AglaeaC
    AglaeaC Posts: 1,974 Member
    Apparently in the mid-west they have problems with French pronunciations of French words. Particularly in the names of their cities and towns.

    I'm looking at you Versailles, Indiana (Ver-sales)

    How would you pronounce Des Moines?
    Not Dess Moinsss, but DeMoins. ?
  • bennettinfinity
    bennettinfinity Posts: 865 Member
    Apparently in the mid-west they have problems with French pronunciations of French words. Particularly in the names of their cities and towns.

    I'm looking at you Versailles, Indiana (Ver-sales)

    Indiana ain't France... it's their town, they can say the name any way they want....

    Do you get upset when the people of New Orleans pronounce in N'awlins? Or Worcester, Mass is pronounced Wooster? Should the good folks in Paris, TX say they live in PARE-ee? (not if they don't want their respective *kitten* kicked)

    Language is local and the locals make the rules... if you want French names with French pronunciations, there's always France, or Quebec, or Haiti, or...

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