Names/places you pronounce wrong

[AppleDumpling]

And for non-Michiganders, the city of Charlotte, MI is not pronounced like Shar-Lit in Charlotte's Web or Charlotte, NC. No no no, in Michigan the city is pronounced, Shar-LOT. You will get a side glance if you say Shar-Lit. LOL

There’s a Charlotte in New York State that’s pronounced the same way...Shar-LOTT, accent on the second syllable. It’s not too far from the aforementioned Chili (CHY-lye). Both are suburbs of Rochester, NY.

 

[AppleDumpling]

The most common one in NYC (Manhattan) is Houston Street. It’s not pronounced like the city in Texas, Hue-stun. Instead it is HOW-stun. Easy way to tell who’s a native New Yorker and who’s not.

 

[sasywtch]

I don't know, people from outside our area make some strange assumptions about how things should be pronounced.

We have Seamas Avenue here, pronounced as it is spelled sea-mas. People (from the south particularly) want to call is shay-mas. How they got shay-mas i have no idea, makes no sense.

People want to make everything Spanish. We have Don Julio Boulevard......pronounced Don Jew-lee-oh not Don Who-lee-oh because Don Julio was Portuguese not Spanish or Mexican.

The city of Vallejo is va-lay-ho not va-yeah-ho.

Yosemite is yo-sem-it-ee not yo-sa-mite

I think it was my kid's generation that started the who lee o instead of Jew lee o. Raised in RL, we played football every Friday at Highlands so was on Don Julio often. We called in Don Jew Lee O. ps my friends own that Maries donuts right there. I'm sure you are aware of the jokes about Seamas. It's my exit to the zoo is all I will say. The big contention in Antelope/NH is Walerga. The only town that I can't pronounce that I can think of is that city in upstate NY. Scandickity???

 

[AlohaNow]

I'm pretty sure I pronounce everything perfectly. But man, people around me are always mispronouncing stuff!

 

[mrodgers]

Not me but everyone else. The little river country town near where I was when we were all together, Emlenton, pronounced exactly how it's spelled. Everyone pronounces it like Emulton. I have no idea why.

 

[AppleDumpling]

The only town that I can't pronounce that I can think of is that city in upstate NY. Scandickity???

Schenectady.

 

[clh2]

I can handle most cities named after Indians. Grew up in Waukesha, which was near Menomonee Falls, also close to Oconomowoc. i used to work in Manitowoc.

New Orleans trips me up every time. I know now that it is pronounced more like Naulins, one word. But my brain keeps thinking It is 2 separate words., so I screw this up every time.

 

[mjkacmom]

How on earth did they come up with that pronunciation with that spelling.

It’s gaelic, like how Siobhan is shivon and roisin is rosheen.

 

[mjkacmom]

The most common one in NYC (Manhattan) is Houston Street. It’s not pronounced like the city in Texas, Hue-stun. Instead it is HOW-stun. Easy way to tell who’s a native New Yorker and who’s not.

This jersey girl knew that.

 

[mjkacmom]

Geoff too. Is it Jeff or Jawff? For the first time I know someone who pronounces it Jeff. When to primary school with a kid who pronounced it Jawff.

Is Corinne pronounced Cor-rin or Cor- reen? I work with a Cor-rin, every other Corrine I have known pronounced it Cor-reen.

Geoff is Jeff, shortened from Geoffrey, the correct way to spell that name. Corrine is cor-in, I’ve never heard it pronounced cor-een.

 

[mjkacmom]

I live near Newark (Nork) NJ. My daughter goes to school in Newark (New-ark) DE. I have a hard time with the latter.

 

[AlohaNow]

When we lived in Hawaii I learned to pronounce things such as Kalanianaole Highway, Queen Liliuokalani Freeway, and Moanalua Freeway correctly. But DH still says that I pronounce Kaneohe incorrectly! And then there was the time we drove around Iceland without a SIM card, therefore no working GPS and just a paper map. I can pronounce Reykjavik, but that's about it.

 

[starvenger]

When I worked in Michigan I never did find out whether I pronounced "Detroit" properly. I do know that I occasionally used the French pronunciation to annoy people.

 

[Hikergirl]

The only town that I can't pronounce that I can think of is that city in upstate NY. Scandickity???

While there is a non-DIS friendly way to help you pronounce that city, you are way off

I pronounce milk wrong, I say "melk"

 

[C&Jx2]

Schenectady.

Ski-neck-ti-dee

I could always say it, but spelling it was a problem for a while.

There is a place here named Cairo. It’s not pronounced like the city in Egypt though, it’s “care-oh”, and locals will let you know

 

[C&Jx2]

While there is a non-DIS friendly way to help you pronounce that city, you are way off

I pronounce milk wrong, I say "melk"

I was trying to phonetically spell it without doing just that

 

[ramee]

Geoff is Jeff, shortened from Geoffrey, the correct way to spell that name. Corrine is cor-in, I’ve never heard it pronounced cor-een.

I think -ine is pronounced -een sometimes. Like Catherine. French?

 

[mjkacmom]

I think -ine is pronounced -een sometimes. Like Catherine. French?

I’ve never heard catherine pronounced with an een. I’ve only heard cathrin.

 

[AurumPunzel]

In Norfolk, England, there are many placenames that have counterintuitive pronunciations to their spellings. For example, Happisburgh is pronounced "hays-borough", rather than the expected "happis-burrg" (-burrg as in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), while Wymondham is pronounced like the hotel chain Wyndham, rather than "why-mond-ham". However, the other Wymondham in Leicestershire - ironically a county with a counterintuitive pronunciation - has theirs pronounced phonetically.

When I first heard of Hauppauge years ago during the 1990s as a manufacturer of PC TV tuner cards, I kept pronouncing it as 'haw-pawdge', until I later learned that they're based in Long Island, NY, and that they pronounce the -ge with a hard G, and likewise, I used to think that Ludgershall in Wiltshire was pronounced with the phonetic 'dge' sound, until I realised that it too had that hard G sound.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Ski-neck-ti-dee

I could always say it, but spelling it was a problem for a while.

There is a place here named Cairo. It’s not pronounced like the city in Egypt though, it’s “care-oh”, and locals will let you know

That's like Versailles, MO. It's pronounced Ver-SAILS even though the namesake is Versailles palace in France.

If we go a certain way to the Lake of the Ozarks we'll stop through Versailles, MO (usually stopping at that Walmart for groceries) I don't remember if the GPS pronounces it correctly or not.