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Old 04-10-2016, 12:49 PM
 
Location: Shrewsbury UK
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Is the mountain in Georgia called "Young Lick Knob" as rude-sounding in American English as it is in British?
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Old 04-10-2016, 12:55 PM
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I think Manteca, California is pretty funny. I always think of lard.
I have a good one Rough and Ready, California.
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Old 04-10-2016, 05:03 PM
 
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I have a good one Rough and Ready, California.
Thats crazy. Lol
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Old 04-11-2016, 04:48 AM
 
Location: Brisbane
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I like the aborgional names in Australia. Some of these are cities, though most are towns.

We have to the O's like
Woolongong
Wooloomoloo
Mooloolaba
Toowoomba
Coorparoo
Toogoolawah


The a double something something A's
Woolongabba
Wangarattta
Coolangatta
Parramatta
Cabramatta
Oodnodatta

The Doubles
Woy Woy
Wee Waa
Bli Bli
Gin Gin
Wagga Wagga
Bong Bong

some others.

Nar Nar Goon
Tittybong
Dunnedo - Pronouced Duuny-Do (Dunny is Australian Slang for Toilet)
Muckadilla
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Old 04-12-2016, 11:13 PM
 
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Istanbul
Prague
Astana
Chernobyl
Shiraz
Osaka
Timbuktu
Barcelona
Milan
Casablanca
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Old 04-13-2016, 03:21 PM
 
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Saskatoon
Moose Factory
Tarzana
Eureka
Reykjavik
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Marrakesh
Toowoomba
Wagga Wagga
Bonnyrigg
Barking
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Old 04-13-2016, 03:49 PM
 
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Iqaluit Nunavut, Canada
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Old 04-14-2016, 10:29 AM
 
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
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Avicii should hold a concert there
Brazilian Portuguese, mostly about how you spell anything ending with "e" (libertate for example)
This is a feature of our pronounciation which makes me feel uncomfortable and nobody can pronounce it as native; foreigners try to say /libedatch/, with a long /ch/, but it's in fact much shorter and something between /ts/ and /ch/. It sounds more like the "č" in Czech than the "ce", "ci" in Italian. But it's not in all the country; in Curitiba and Porto Alegre, for example, this word is pronounced exactly as in Italian.
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Old 04-14-2016, 11:43 AM
 
Location: Somewhere in Southern Italy
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This is a feature of our pronounciation which makes me feel uncomfortable and nobody can pronounce it as native; foreigners try to say /libedatch/, with a long /ch/, but it's in fact much shorter and something between /ts/ and /ch/. It sounds more like the "č" in Czech than the "ce", "ci" in Italian. But it's not in all the country; in Curitiba and Porto Alegre, for example, this word is pronounced exactly as in Italian.
Our commentators had a hard time at the last World Cup when pronouncing the name of your players, they constantly shifted between the Anglophone pronounce (for some reason), the Italian one and the local one.
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Old 04-14-2016, 11:56 AM
 
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Defeated, Tennessee, which is just a wander from Difficult, Tennessee. Maybe a lunch hour from Enigma, TN
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