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View Poll Results: How Do You Pronounce the Following Words -- Texas and Bowie?
Tex-izz (Native Texan) 3 5.45%
Tex-iss (Native Texan) 7 12.73%
Tex-izz (Non-native) 0 0%
Tex-iss (Non-native) 4 7.27%
Bow-ee (Native Texan) 6 10.91%
Boo-ee (Native Texan) 21 38.18%
Bow-ee (Non-native) 3 5.45%
Boo-ee (Non-native) 3 5.45%
I use both interchangeably 0 0%
Don't care/No opinion 6 10.91%
Other (please explain) 2 3.64%
Voters: 55. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-01-2014, 12:34 PM
 
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One of the ones I always found a bit amusing was when some TV weathermen who were new to Texas would, when giving the counties involved in a Tornado Watch, was to pronounce "Montague" county as "Mont-a-Gue" LOL
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Old 10-01-2014, 12:40 PM
 
Location: From TX to VA
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One of the ones I always found a bit amusing was when some TV weathermen who were new to Texas would, when giving the counties involved in a Tornado Watch, was to pronounce "Montague" county as "Mont-a-Gue" LOL
I've never had to pronounce that one. What's the correct way?
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Old 10-01-2014, 01:09 PM
 
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I've never had to pronounce that one. What's the correct way?
That would be -- at least in Texas vernacular -- "Mon' teg" (or a least something very close to that!).
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Old 10-01-2014, 03:47 PM
 
Location: Texas
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That would be -- at least in Texas vernacular -- "Mon' teg" (or a least something very close to that!).
Lifelong Texan here, and I would have FAILED on that one!
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Old 10-01-2014, 04:51 PM
 
Location: Where I live.
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Lifelong Texan here, and I would have FAILED on that one!
Boy, me, too! I've never heard that pronounced.
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Old 10-01-2014, 05:28 PM
 
Location: From TX to VA
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Lifelong Texan here, and I would have FAILED on that one!
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Boy, me, too! I've never heard that pronounced.
Me three... I'd never have guessed it that way! Live and learn...
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Old 10-01-2014, 10:26 PM
 
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Me three... I'd never have guessed it that way! Live and learn...
me four....lol
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Old 10-01-2014, 11:06 PM
 
Location: Riding the light...
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Tex us or Tex uz
Boo we
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Old 10-01-2014, 11:25 PM
 
Location: Oceania
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Well, I'll be damned, all this time I thought he was a hairdresser.

Curious, how does this relate to the topic of the thread?
I learned about him from the TV show years ago. It depicted him as a kindly sort as he was always setting slaves free and rescuing them, kicking people off of his properties, letting them stay or playing hero of the day - depending on the show. It was very clear he owned slaves and was into the underworld, smuggling. He was probably an a-hole, sought some adventure, went to the Alamo and died.
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Old 10-02-2014, 12:41 PM
 
Location: Southeast Texas
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Non-native here.

Sort of a cross of Tex-us and Tex-is, depends on how tired I am I guess.
Bow-ee until a couple of years ago when I said something about Jim "Bow-ee" and my hubby corrected me to "Boo-ee." I had never heard the name pronounced other than "Bow-ee." Go figure.

Yeah I would have thought "Montague" as "Mont-a-Gue" too. There is a street near where I grew up called Montague Expressway, and it was pronounced "Mont-a-Gue."
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