Mispronounced City and State names (move, swimming pool, deal)

[CMDallas]

Originally Posted by Juan Hau-Lee

I grew up in Loss An-gel-us and even the Latino homeys called San Pedro... "Pee-drow"

Really? I always say Loh-ss An-heh-leh-ss when I'm talking in Spanish. But I say Loss An-gel-les when I talk in English.
Those sad latino people, I would alway say Pedro the way it souposed to be said


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

[cosmonewman]

Originally Posted by wurd4wurd

Here's another one that hurts

Amherst, New Hampshire - I lived there for 4 years and could not bring myself to pronounce Amherst the way the natives said it...
am-merst not am-herst

Amherst Mass is pronounced the same way.

[gnab gib]

Originally Posted by Billiam

Where im from, here in Md, we say "Harv duh grace"

Oh, yeah? Then the TV people must have had it wrong. No surprise there. I'm sure Brett Favre would pronounce it "Harv," too. Which is good enough for me.

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by krudmonk

George Bush, you're wrong.

Hello, I'm good humor! Have we met?

[SunnyKayak]

Cherryville North Carolina
is pronounced Chair vul and often can be mistaken by a local pronouncing it as one syllable.

Every NC city pronounces ville as vul except Asheville it does pronounce ville as veal

[katmoney]

Originally Posted by j33

Yeah, I was given a hard time too for saying it that way too when visiting the Pacific Northwest. I wonder what it is about this part of the country and our desire to pronounce it the way we do.

Seems like chicagoans always think the way they say things are right and everyone else is wrong!

[PGC301]

Originally Posted by Billiam

^ I've heard "Warshington" (not related to war)

In baltimore, they say "Baw-mer', and people not from baltimore say "Balt-uh-more"

anyway, here are a few in my area

Frederick, MD is pronounce 'Fredrick' not "fred-erick"

People can never seem to get 'Silver Spring' right
its not that they pronounce 'Silver Sring' wrong, its just they don't even know the name. people not from the area always call it 'silver springs', even in this one song, they say silver springs, talking about the city, but its really 'silver spring'

Also when I say im from "Mair-uh-lind" when im far from home, people say " oh! you're from 'Mary-Land', it gets kind of annoying

I don't know if it's just specific to the DC metro area, but I hear alot of people around here pronounce it "Mur-lin".

Also, every once in a while I'll come across somebody that I can tell isn't from around here because they pronounce Bowie, MD like "Bow-ee" (like David Bowie). It's pronounced "Boo-ee"

[krudmonk]

Originally Posted by Steve-o

Hello, I'm good humor! Have we met?

Good humor...in the midwest???

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by krudmonk

Good humor...in the midwest???

Yep, invented right in Ohio actually.

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[Drover]

Originally Posted by wurd4wurd

Boise, Idaho - pronounced BOY-see and not BOY-zee

Originally Posted by Steve-o

Weird, I thought it was French and pronounced "bwah".

Originally Posted by krudmonk

Actually, it would be "bwahz" because of the E at the end.

Yeah, think of Barabara Walters trying to pronounce the plural of "bra" . . . "Bwahz"