Correct Texas pronunciation of various towns?

[Lonesome Dove]

LA Grange --- ZZ Top

 

[JackOfAllTrades]

From my former part of the world... Worcester.

 

[TreyG-20]

From my former part of the world... Worcester.

I know that sauce.

 

[Sasquatch]

From my former part of the world... Worcester.

"Wooster"

"Wuster"

"Wister"

then again, if it was Texas, that'd probably be "Westerville"

 

[General Zod]

From my former part of the world... Worcester.

Why the F do the Brits pronounce it "Wooster", anyway? Do they not see the R, C, and E?

 

[Big Dipper]

Why the F do the Brits pronounce it "Wooster", anyway? Do they not see the R, C, and E?

And then there is Pedernales with the “r“ after the ”d” — NOT before the ”d”!

 

[General Zod]

And then there is Pedernales with the “r“ after the ”d” — NOT before the ”d”!

Pedernales - pronounced "Purd'n'alliz". Yep.

 

[skfullgun]

You-ston

I remember being taught how to pronounce it in the first grade.

Pronouncing the silent “H” would have you cursed by our teacher, Ms. Sinclair, for being a Yankee Carpetbagger!

 

[General Zod]

You-ston

I remember being taught how to pronounce it in the first grade.

Pronouncing the silent “H” would have you cursed by our teacher, Ms. Sinclair, for being a Yankee Carpetbagger!

Must be an East Texas thing or something. I've always heard it as "HYOO-st'n".

 

[skfullgun]

Must be an East Texas thing or something. I've always heard it as "HYOO-st'n".

I grew up and went to school in Houston.

 

[General Zod]

I grew up and went to school in Houston.

Central Texas apparently has other ideas on how it's pronounced.

You folks say it wrong. LOL

 

[skfullgun]

Central Texas apparently has other ideas on how it's pronounced.

You folks say it wrong. LOL

Either that, or Ms. Sinclair was right!
LOL!

 

[General Zod]

Either that, or Ms. Sinclair was right!
LOL!

LOL nope, my family has been in Texas so long stuff is named after us. I come from a long line of cedarchopper hillbillies LOL

 

[WT_Foxtrot]

Always reminds me of the joke about the couple that was traveling through East Texas and they stopped in Nacogdoches to get something to eat. When the waitress brought the food, the lady asked her, "How do you pronounce the name of this place? Say it slowly, please." The waitress answered, "It's pronounced "Day-eerie Queen".

I remember the same joke about Mexia....one dude thought it was MEX-EE-AH and the other the correct MUH-HEY-AH. Rumor was Anna Nicole Smith was the DQ employee in Mexia where she lived in her teenage years.

 

[WT_Foxtrot]

Rio Vista is RY-OH Vista, not REE-OH Vista.....at least according to the locals.

 

[kbaxter60]

Rio Vista is RYO Vista, not REEO Vista.....at least according to the locals.

True story. My sis and BIL live there.

 

[Sasquatch]

Rio Vista is RY-OH Vista, not REE-OH Vista.....at least according to the locals.

That makes zero sense, given the spelling. Sometimes I think the way things get pronounced is because in the back-when times, someone had a damned speech impediment, and they told a new comer how they pronounced something and that shit stuck like a swear word in a toddler's mouth...

 

[Texasgordo]

That makes zero sense, given the spelling.

You wouldn't understand it's a Texas thing. Kind of like how a soda water is a Coke or a shopping cart is a buggy.

It's just how we talk down here.

 

[General Zod]

The town of Ferris is pronounced "Speedtrap".

 

[msharley]

You wouldn't understand it's a Texas thing. Kind of like how a soda water is a Coke or a shopping cart is a buggy.

It's just how we talk down here.