Mispronounced City and State names (hotel, areas, Asians)

[Ben Around]

Originally Posted by CMDallas

I just remembered oneecatur ... pronounced (dhe-cay-ter)

That's what I'd expect. How else would someone pronounce it?

[Drover]

Originally Posted by Ben Around

That's what I'd expect. How else would someone pronounce it?

Well I for one would have no idea how to pronounce "ecatur" if I saw it on a map. I'd be just as puzzled as trying to pronounce Prince's "symbol-name." Maybe the "" in "ecatur" symbolizes a "Bushman click" like in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy?

Decatur, on the other hand, is pretty obvious.

[Billiam]

Originally Posted by Juan Hau-Lee

You can say Neh-vaah-da if you like but the peeps in Nev-add-ah will know you are probably from Ar-kan-sus!!

How will they know im from Arkansas when im from Maryland (originally from MD, than to PA though), not even close to Arkansas. The People from my area all say "nev-auh-da", not in a southern accent at all and we do not have the accent even remotely close to the accent of arkansas, so please tell me, how will they know im from Arkansas

[RuralCoastalGuy]

Guess it depends upon where you are as I have been in two towns with the same name but in different states. We were used to pronouncing Concord, NH as Conkid (emphasis on the Con). Here in North Carolina there is a town of the same name in the Charlotte area and they pronounce it Con cord with almost equal emphasis on both Con and cord. Robert D. Raeford, Program Curmudgeon on The John Boy and Billy Show here in NC, will remind you of that fact about every three weeks or whenever the word Concord comes up. He will rant and rave and then finally move on to something else he can complain about.

[100%Michigan]

Lansing is not Land-zing
Detroit is not Det-roit
Kalamazoo is not Call-lama-zoo
Traverse City is not Trah-ver-si
Marquette is not Mark-q-et
Okemos is not (Ok)e-mus
Those are the main cities/towns I heard pronounce wrong... sadly by
even some of the residents in Michigan alone

[Katiana]

Originally Posted by Mikey_NC

Guess it depends upon where you are as I have been in two towns with the same name but in different states. We were used to pronouncing Concord, NH as Conkid (emphasis on the Con). Here in North Carolina there is a town of the same name in the Charlotte area and they pronounce it Con cord with almost equal emphasis on both Con and cord. Robert D. Raeford, Program Curmudgeon on The John Boy and Billy Show here in NC, will remind you of that fact about every three weeks or whenever the word Concord comes up. He will rant and rave and then finally move on to something else he can complain about.

LANC aster, Pennsylvania (Lancaster)
Lan' caster, California
Lan' caster County, Nebraska
Emphasis on first syllable in all cases

RAW chester, Pennsylvania. (Rochester)
ROCH ister, Minnesota

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by pittnurse70

RAW chester

Ive gotten a few of those before. A painful result from my fancy attempts to dive into the swimming pool that accidentally turned into belly-flops.

[babyqs4]

I grew up in Bowie, Md. Ppl that live there say boo-wee and outsiders say bow-ee. Its a big deal where I am from but in Bowie, Texas they say it Bow-ee. No big deal to me. lol

[Drover]

Originally Posted by Mikey_NC

Guess it depends upon where you are as I have been in two towns with the same name but in different states. We were used to pronouncing Concord, NH as Conkid (emphasis on the Con). Here in North Carolina there is a town of the same name in the Charlotte area and they pronounce it Con cord with almost equal emphasis on both Con and cord.

That's simply a function of accent. New England has a non-rhotic accent, meaning the "r" sound following a vowel sound is frequently dropped, hence the "r" in Concord kind of disappears and becomes "Conkid." On the other end of the spectrum is the highly rhotic Chicago accent, where "Concorde" is often pronounced almost the same as "conquered."

[M TYPE X]

Originally Posted by Drover

People who pronounce Illinois "Ellanoy." There's no "e" or "a" anywhere in the name.

And it seems everyone outside the northern Midwest pronounces Wisconsin WES-CON-sin, with an "e" instead of an "i" in the first syllable, and with equal emphasis on both syllables. There's no "e" in Wisconsin, and the emphasis goes on the second syllable only.

hahaha, Southerners are funny.