Ignorant local pronounciations that stick...

I agree. Texas has a lot of them.

Is it because they dip?

If I can't spell it, I ain't sayin' it. I can't spell much.

Also, c'mon Boston, learn how to say 'car keys' and 'drawer'

I had a woman in a teacher conference session I was hosting who had the last name Kuykendahl. She was not from Houston, nor was she from Texas (I think she said Michigan) and it was pronounced the same way the street is pronounced. Apparently that's just how it's said.

Pretty much all over the South, people say INsurance instead of inSURance. Working in insurance, that always bugged the hell out of me.

HUGE pet peeve of mine. Texas has a lot for example.

Kuykendahl...I'm sorry Houston, but there is no R in that word. Someone down the line couldn't say it correctly with their drawl

Lake Amistad. "Amstead". Seriously, how flipping stupid do you have to be.

Pedernales... I don't care how great a man he was, I'm still not pronouncing it as "perd"

Llano. The name is Spanish. Deal with it.

There are more, but I'll be (h)umble and not post them.

I'm from Houston...as soon as I saw this topic title, Kuykendahl was the first thing that popped in my head. :bigsmile: (I pronounce it correctly...just throwing that out there)

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

I hate it when people say foyer like foy er instead of foy ay. Its a french word... silly me

There are parks called Schifferdecker and Schermerhorn in my general area and everyone pronounces them "Shiffendecker" and "Shimmerhorn".

Oh, there's also a restaurant with the name of ____ _____ Espressoria. Everyone just calls it _____ _______ Express (it can't be shortened because there are other restaurants with the same first 2 words in their name). I do it too, because I feel like I'd sound like a pretentious jerk saying 'espressoria' when no one else does. But it still bugs me because I hate when people say "expresso" for espresso!

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

kike in doll

I assume it's Dutch. That's not how a Dutch would pronounce it though.

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I hate it when people say foyer like foy er instead of foy ay. Its a french word... silly me

I wouldn't pronounce with an ay in the end, if I spoke French. Americans have a weird way of pronouncing French.

Faux is one vowel in sound yet it becomes two in some miraculous way over there.

And don't get me started on hors d'oeuvres, that one makes my ears bleed.

OHH..and my wife hails from MOSS-CO, Idaho... Not to be confused with MOS-COW Russia... although they are spelled the same. kinda an old cold war wound I think.

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.

when someone pronounces it "expresso" i die a little inside.

and this is not pronounced like the city in Texas.

They actually spell it with an x, too. Espresso, people, espresso.