Pronouncing local place names! (San Antonio, Amarillo: to work, near, pronounce)

[ranchodrive]

Mostly people from out of town will pronounce the street

San Peedro instead of San Pedro...

[Azure110]

Most people can't pronouce Quihi, the name of a town (if you even want to call it a town) near Hondo. Not exactly in San Antonio I know, but it is funny when I hear outsiders try to pronounce it.

[huckster]

Listneing to one my many yankee friends mispronunciate Nacodoches Rd. or once even I heard--
Cheehooahooha, For Chihuahua.
This material can be quite entertaining.

Originally Posted by Azure110

Most people can't pronouce Quihi, the name of a town (if you even want to call it a town) near Hondo. Not exactly in San Antonio I know, but it is funny when I hear outsiders try to pronounce it.

[Mom2Feebs]

I learned so much moving from Houston to SA. Everything here is pronounced very gringo. Blank-o, San Peh-droh, Cih-buh-lo. I like it, but I was sort of surprised, nonetheless. We have one street left in H-town that is still gringo (though dying fast) and that's San Felipe. Newcomers and latinos are calling it San Feh-leeeep-ay, which is what it looks like it should be, but true Houstonians know it's San Fill-uhh-pee.

I have a brother in law from Chicago who gets so flummoxed from all Texas' idiosyncrasies with pronunciations. He always says "BeXar....or WHATEVER..." lol I guess it's confusing to expect to silence the X when Texas has an X and it's emphasized...

[malcorub16]

Originally Posted by ranchodrive

Mostly people from out of town will pronounce the street

San Peedro instead of San Pedro...

Los Angelinos pronounce San Pedro as San Peedro.

Other names that are improperly pronounced in LA that would most certainly be pronounced properly in San Antonio are:

Los Feliz pronounced Los Feeles.

El Segundo pronounced El Se-gun-doe.

and of course Los Angeles itself.

But yet they say Rodeo Dr with Spanish twist versus rodeo as is the Livestock and Rodeo show.

[TXsurburbanmom]

I figure it should be pronounced the way the long time locals pronounce it. Thus Llano with a hard L but Llano Estacado begins with a Y sound. I couldn't figure out where my friend was moving because it sounded like Forestville but she was saying Flores-ville. I'd always run it together so it sounded like floorsville. But I'm from SA and she's from Austin. Speaking of Aistin, I did laugh at but will respect them calling Menchaca man shack. It's hard but I'll do it.

It's obviously not just Spanish names either. A lot of German names around here are regularly butchered. When I worked at USAA I worked with areas in MA. I had to really try hard to get some of the cities right but I worked at it because it's the respectful thing to do. I've also finally figured out why so many Texas names always sound wrong when announcers say them. They over enunciate. I say San Antonio like it's one word stressing the AN but I hear it SAN (pause) antonio. San Angelo where I used it live is more slurred becoming Sunanjlo.

I'm sure every area has a lot of places others struggle to say correctly. Of course there's people who have had the correct pronunciation explained nicely who still refuse and I think that's just rude. I've had it come up with Kingsland, Burnet and Palestine with people who absolutely know better and I swear they're doing it just to be ugly.

[lynnylo]

I just pronounce everything "German like" and with all the German names in the area I'm right....most of the time. When it comes to Spanish names, I just ask my husband.

The only exception is Gruene, cause normally in German it would be pronounced Grüne, green sounds weird to me.

[ranchodrive]

Originally Posted by huckster

Listening to one my many yankee friends mispronunciate Nacodoches Rd. once even I heard--
Cheehooahooha, For Chihuahua.
This material can be quite entertaining.

Cheehooahooha ???
And here I thought only my ex pronounced it like that...

[Paka]

Hey, that is how we tell the locals from the furneurs!!! LOL

[Mom2Feebs]

Originally Posted by ddeel

I figure it should be pronounced the way the long time locals pronounce it. Thus Llano with a hard L but Llano Estacado begins with a Y sound. I couldn't figure out where my friend was moving because it sounded like Forestville but she was saying Flores-ville. I'd always run it together so it sounded like floorsville. But I'm from SA and she's from Austin. Speaking of Aistin, I did laugh at but will respect them calling Menchaca man shack. It's hard but I'll do it.

It's obviously not just Spanish names either. A lot of German names around here are regularly butchered. When I worked at USAA I worked with areas in MA. I had to really try hard to get some of the cities right but I worked at it because it's the respectful thing to do. I've also finally figured out why so many Texas names always sound wrong when announcers say them. They over enunciate. I say San Antonio like it's one word stressing the AN but I hear it SAN (pause) antonio. San Angelo where I used it live is more slurred becoming Sunanjlo.

I'm sure every area has a lot of places others struggle to say correctly. Of course there's people who have had the correct pronunciation explained nicely who still refuse and I think that's just rude. I've had it come up with Kingsland, Burnet and Palestine with people who absolutely know better and I swear they're doing it just to be ugly.

Wait, the wine is actually pronounced Yah-no? Welp, I gotta go track down someone I bet in 1995 or so...