Mispronounced City and State names (used car, rain, Scottish)

[timeofseasons]

Originally Posted by SNEwx_46

This always annoyed me.

Strange, I' am a Michigan resident ( born here too) and always pronounce Detroit as Deetroit.

[Ben Around]

Originally Posted by sirrob

Houston County in Georgia is pronounced "House-tun".

I pronounced this, Dal-on-AYGA, GA (Da-LON-iga is correct, I think.)

Many people, including the Mayor pronounce the city "Inna-napolis".

A native pronounced this Battin Rudge, Lews-a-anna.

Kinda like Ed Rendell, Governor of PA who pronounces it Pennsa-vania.

[Ben Around]

Originally Posted by timeofseasons

Strange, I' am a Michigan resident ( born here too) and always pronounce Detroit as Deetroit.

Perhaps your parents were from the South?

[thePR]

Originally Posted by sirrob

The Des Plaines, IL locals pronounce their town - "Dez Playnz".

It's more Dis Planes.

[Spade]

Originally Posted by slengel

it's not st. louie, missourah, it's st. louis, missouree.

I absolutely hate when people do that to Miami and Missouri. There is no ah at the end of these places.

[recycled]

On a visit to Massachusetts many years ago, I was trying to get to the town of Peabody. I stopped and asked, How do I get to PEE-body? Someone told me that there's no such place, but PEE-buh-DEE was just up the road about 2 miles.

Here's a tough one that I still don't know: Nachitoches (Louisiana). Is is nash-tush?

[timeofseasons]

Originally Posted by Ben Around

Perhaps your parents were from the South?

I hear everyone in Lansing, including news stations ( I think) do not pronounce Detroit as Datroit. I think Deetroit is improper spelling, the correct way to pronounce the city is Ditroit ( spelling of Deetroit sounds similar). I am sure I prounce it as Ditroit, and everyone else I know.
Wikipedia

(And no my parents are from the midwest, however both has spent most of their life in Michigan)

[chocisful]

Originally Posted by Juan Hau-Lee

You can always tell a visitor by the way they pronounce local place names.

Time to set people straight, give your best phonetic spelling of the RIGHT way to say your city or state name.

I'll start, tourists say "Hah na lu lu", it's "HO-NO lulu". (Honolulu Hi.)

READING PENNSYLVANIA

pronounced like Redding.

[Drover]

Wilkes-Barre is not a pub owned by some bloke name Wilk. It is not "Wilk's Bar." It's Wilkes-Berry.

[Kobber]

Originally Posted by recycled

On a visit to Massachusetts many years ago, I was trying to get to the town of Peabody. I stopped and asked, How do I get to PEE-body? Someone told me that there's no such place, but PEE-buh-DEE was just up the road about 2 miles.

Here's a tough one that I still don't know: Nachitoches (Louisiana). Is is nash-tush?

We stopped off in Nachitoches on a road trip a few years ago and were told it was pronounced Nacka-tish. Maybe they were just kidding with us... who knows.