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About to move to PA to a small city that I can't even decide how to pronounce. You read right decide because it is acceptable to say it at least 3 ways - Wilkes - Barre can be said Wilkes Bear , Wilkes Beary Wilkes Berry or Wilkes Bar-uh.
Other weird
names in PA include -Bird In Hand
Intercourse
Throop
Drums
Forty Fort
Nuangola (is that in Africa? )
Olyphant
Moosic the first time I heard it when getting directions my MIL and I thought the poor woman was trying to say "music" and she had a speech impediment.
Buttztown
King of Prussia
Effort
Media
and California and Indiana because they should be in their own
states
Wyoming is another one? WTH?
I just can't stand the way people from the cities say the names of the cities.
I hate that Kansas city thing too. I just hate how people abreviate it. KCK & KC Mo. There should be 1 Kansas city in the state of Kansas. Then no one would say "KCK" or "KC Mo."
I don't like how Massachusetts people say Boston either.
...those with either "New," "North," "South" or "West" as the first part of the name (Virginia extends est of "West" Virginia, which was originally named "Kanawha," means "place of white stone," and should have stayed that way, with the capital called "Kanawha City" instead of named after a city in SC)
...those whose names are of Anglo-Saxon/English origin (New Hampshire, New York, Virginia, etc.)
...those states whose names are easily confused with the name of a city (and vise versa) (New York, Washington)
...those named after a body of water bordering several states, especially if it begins/ends in some other state(s) (Ohio, Mississippi, Michigan, Ontario in Canada)
The Name Indiana only works if a huge influx of people from the Indian Sub-continent settles there.
"Rhode Island" is a bit awkward as well.
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For cities,
Anything not unique or original, anything confused with the name of a state (see above,) anything that locals pronounce in what could be considered a disquieting manner (Louisville, Norfolk) anything that ends up sounding creepy and disturbing in another language (Slickpoo, Idaho) and anything with "ton," especially "ington" at the end and others who share a name with a city or other place in Western Europe, especially England.
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