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  • majormadmax

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    San Antonio!
    Texas is awash in incorrectly pronounced place names! For one, Bexar is not "bear" but "bay-har" the same way Texas was originally pronounced "Tey-has." The 'X' is not silent, but pronounced like a 'Y' and 'H' together.

    One of the worst in Greune. Most call it "green," but the correct pronunciation is "grune" as my German-born and raised mother aptly points out every time she visits.

    Boerne is one of the few exceptions, most know it's pronounced like the name "Bernie" )not to be confused with any socialist millionaire politicians!).

    However, it's nothing unique to the Lone Star State. Marylanders call their largest city "Bal-more." I guess it's correct pronunciation has too many syllables in it! But when I lived just outside of it, I remember hearing the "Merlin" traffic report on the radio all of the time. I thought it was an acronym of some sort, only to later learn it's how the locals pronounced the name of their state!
     

    popper

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    Mexican, German, Tennessee, Kentucky and 13 colonies pronunciation all mixed up. Not as bad as Nola. We were under 6 different countries
     

    GoPappy

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    Nacogdoches, Texas is pronounced Nack-uh-DOH-chez.

    But go across the Texas/Louisiana border to Natchitoches, Louisiana, and it’s pronounced NACK-uh-tish.
     

    Sasquatch

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    Holy crap - historical Texans must've just wanted to screw with their offspring's offspring - I get a few places being hard to pronounce, but it seems like every city that's not Dallas or Houston is pronounced 10 ways of fucked up. :fireworks:Some of those pronunciations are just... yeah you'll certainly tell I'm not from around there if I wander to those parts! We have a few places like that here - mostly named after Indian tribes, or a few after European settlers. A lot of places around where I live now have "Tualatin" or some variant in their name - including a city by that name. Its pronounced "Two-all-uh-tin" but you hear it pronounced "toilet-in" "twallatin" "Too-A-Latin" by foreigners too. And "Willamette" - lots of Illinois people pronounce it "Will-Met", because the river / valley was named after the place in Illinois, but we pronounce it "Will-am-et" and if you sound it differently, you're immediately recognized as a foreigner but shit, Texas takes the cake for random letters that move, or are silent. It's almost as bad as Portuguese where "R" is pronounced as "H" :beat:
     
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