The Official Guide to Pronouncing words in Utah (Layton, Tooele: live, best)

[markg91359]

Cache County ----"cash" county

Ivins----"Eye-vins"

Hurricane---"Her-i-cun"

LaVerkin----"Luh-ver-cun"

Weber----"wee-burr"

Tooele---"Too-ill-uhh"

Juab--"Jew--abb"

Veyo-- "V-eye-oh"

Levan-- "Luh-vann"

Duchesne--"Do-shane"

Uintah-- "You-in-tuh"

Zion--is "Zi-unn" (definitely not Zi-Onn")

Special notes: A city like Spanish Fork is often pronounced as "Spanish Faark" Sometimes, you will hear the vegetable corn pronounced as "caarn"


Anyone want to add to my list?

[MisfitBanana]

Oquirrh (like the mountains or temple) - Oh-curr or oak-er

Layton - more like lay-dun, the t is more of a d.

[jfitt]

How about the state itself---You-taw. Everyone from outside the state says You-tahh

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by markg91359

Cache County ----"cash" county

Ivins----"EYE-vins"

Hurricane---"HER-i-cun"

LaVerkin----"Luh-VER-cun"

Weber----"WEE-burr"

Tooele---"Too-ILL-uhh"

Juab--"JEW--abb"

Veyo-- "V-EYE-oh"

Levan-- "Luh-VANN"

Duchesne--"Do-SHANE"

Uintah-- "You-IN-tuh"

Zion--is "ZI-unn" (definitely not Zi-Onn")

Special notes: A city like Spanish Fork is often pronounced as "Spanish Faark" Sometimes, you will hear the vegetable corn pronounced as "caarn"


Anyone want to add to my list?

I hope you don't mind, but I'm just going to indicate (with all caps and in bold face) which syllable is the accented one. That's probably evident in a lot of the cases anyway, but maybe not in all of them.

Now, a couple of comments...

1. I've lived here all my life and I've never heard of Veyo. Where is it?
2. I wasn't sure how to pronounce Levan from your explanation. I'm assuming you're saying, Luh-VON. My mom grew up not too far from there and always pronounced it "Luh-VAN."
3. I think the best way to explain to people how Zion is pronounced, is to just say that it rhymes with "lion."

Also, most native Utahns call it "Zions" -- which is WRONG! It may be Zions Bank, but it's Zion National Park. I've even heard a handful of people say, "Bryces." Bryces? Get real.

Also, you mentioned Weber and told how to pronounce it. Heber rhymes with it and is pronounced HEE-burr. Can't think of any more off the top of my head.

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by MisfitBanana

Layton - more like lay-dun, the t is more of a d.

I actually think that lay-dun would be a mispronunciation, and lay-ton is correct. We Utahns tend to mispronounce the word "mountains" as well. We simply drop the 't' and throw in a glottal stop (don't know how many people on the forum are familiar with that term) so that the word comes out sounding something like "moun-un." It's this same glottal stop that might be making Layton sound more like Laydon.

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by jfitt

How about the state itself---You-taw. Everyone from outside the state says You-tahh

I know what you mean, although I'm not sure your explanation made it all that clear. I think most out-of-staters prounounce the word the way it would probably be pronounced in England. If you can fake a British accent and say Utah the way you think a Brit would, you're saying the word the way out-of-staters would say it, and you'd be saying it incorrectly.

[cwaatar516]

Katzpur:
Veyo is a little dot just north of St George. In the fourteen years I have lived here, I have never heard it pronounced any way but Vay-oh.

[elcee499]

Mantua - MAN-a-way

Tremonton - TREE-mon-tun

Hooper - HUP-per

[kletter1mann]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

I actually think that lay-dun would be a mispronunciation, and lay-ton is correct. We Utahns tend to mispronounce the word "mountains" as well. We simply drop the 't' and throw in a glottal stop (don't know how many people on the forum are familiar with that term) so that the word comes out sounding something like "moun-un." It's this same glottal stop that might be making Layton sound more like Laydon.

Hmm. Does that carry over to kitten as "ki-in", mitten as "mi-in" etc?

[kletter1mann]

Originally Posted by jfitt

How about the state itself---You-taw. Everyone from outside the state says You-tahh

This has to be some kind generalized regional thing depending on where those out-of-staters are from. Southern? Midwestern? California? I can't ever, ever recall anybody in the northeast calling it anything other than You-taw. Neither can my wife.

And while we're at it, for us it's "Ca-lo-rah-do", not "Ca-lo-rad-o" and "Nuh-vah-duh" not "Nuh-vad-uh."
What's the local pronunciation of these neighboring states with far inferior snow?