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City names with totally different pronounciations

Posted By: PanzerMeyer

City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 11:35 AM

I learned something new today. Apparently the city of "Worchester" in Massachusetts is pronounced as "Wooster" and if you pronounce it as written you will get funny looks from the locals. This reminds me of a city in England which is written as "Leicester" but I believe it is pronounced as "Lester" by the locals? Anyway, I find it both interesting and a bit funny how some city names have that discrepancy.
Posted By: - Ice

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 11:45 AM

Durham - "Durr-am"
Worcestershire - "Worstershire" *not a city*
Posted By: Khai

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 11:48 AM

Ok not a city, but an area of london

Southwark, pronounced sufvock..
Posted By: Chucky

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 11:52 AM

I was only watching this yesterday.



Ice, It's Woostershire. We don't pronounce the 'r'.

Posted By: Chef

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
I learned something new today. Apparently the city of "Worchester" in Massachusetts is pronounced as "Wooster" and if you pronounce it as written you will get funny looks from the locals. This reminds me of a city in England which is written as "Leicester" but I believe it is pronounced as "Lester" by the locals? Anyway, I find it both interesting and a bit funny how some city names have that discrepancy.


It's not just England's Leicester. Just up the road from me is Leicester, NC and it's pronounced "Lester" as well. Leicester, NC You can tell people are not from around here if they don't pronounce it "Lester"

Then you get into the Beaufort, NC and Beaufort, SC thing. Beaufort, NC is pronounced "Boh-fart" and Beaufort, SC is pronounced "Bew-fart".
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by Chef


Then you get into the Beaufort, NC and Beaufort, SC thing. Beaufort, NC is pronounced "Boh-fart" and Beaufort, SC is pronounced "Bew-fart".


Eh...those South Carolinians are a bit weird anyway huh? biggrin
Posted By: Airdrop01

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 12:26 PM

Versailles, Missouri is pronounced Ver-sails.
Posted By: KraziKanuK

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 12:32 PM

Gloucester Some here say Gla- ces- ter but others say Gloster.
Posted By: bones

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 12:57 PM

Huger, South Carolina is pronounced "Hue-Gee."

Norfolk is pronounced "Nor fuk" (I believe from my remembrance...Skate...?)

Des Plaines, IL is pronounced "Dez Planes" and Matteson, IL is pronounced "Matt-Uh-Son."

And my favorite is a town we visited in Austria...which I have to censor even though it technically isn't a swear word since it is a proper noun in Austria: "F*king" is pronounce "Fooking" as in "looking" or "booking."

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Posted By: - Ice

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by Khai
Ok not a city, but an area of london

Southwark, pronounced sufvock..

I thought that was Suffolk? smile

Originally Posted by Chucky
Ice, It's Woostershire. We don't pronounce the 'r'.

Hahaha! You might not, Chucky, but that's how a local here told me it was pronounced!! Might be more Wooor than Wor, but there was an R smile

Same thing for the worcestershire sauce -- "worstershire sauce" and definitely with an R

Hartlepool - 'Artlpoo
Middlesbrough - Middlsbruh
Darlington - Darlo

Hahahaha!!
Posted By: RedToo

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 01:19 PM

Worcestershire Sauce - Wooster Sauce

Belvoir Castle - Beever Castle

Cholomondely - Chumley

Other pronunciations are available. smile
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by RedToo


Belvoir Castle - Beever Castle

Cholomondely - Chumley



Wow. I definitely would have never guessed these!
Posted By: NH2112

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 02:00 PM

Calais, France - Ca-lay’
Calais, Maine - Cal’-iss

Woolwich = Woolich

Ber-lin’, Germany
Ber’-lin, NH

Woburn, MA - Wooburn.

Not a city name that I know of, but the surname “Featherstonehaugh” is pronounced “Fanshaw.”
Posted By: F4UDash4

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
Originally Posted by Chef


Then you get into the Beaufort, NC and Beaufort, SC thing. Beaufort, NC is pronounced "Boh-fart" and Beaufort, SC is pronounced "Bew-fart".


Eh...those South Carolinians are a bit weird anyway huh? biggrin



No, North Carolinians are! Any intelligent, well bred person would know that the SC pronunciation of Beaufort is the only correct one.
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 02:15 PM

Isn't Beaufort, SC the town right next to Parris Island? If so, I agree with F4U because US Marines are always right. biggrin
Posted By: bones

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 02:15 PM

"Westeros" is pronounced "Westeros"

"Kings Landing" is pronounced "Kings Landing."

"Dorn" is pronounced "Dorn."

"The Wall" is pronounced "The Wall."

Sorry just felt like posting something stupid.

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Posted By: oldgrognard

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 02:24 PM

Maryland - Havre de Grace Is Havitty Grace with the Grace being pronounced as what you say before dinner.

Georgia - Cairo is Kayro
Posted By: Chef

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 02:27 PM

Well, I honestly have no dog in the Beaufort fight. I've lived in both states long enough to enjoy the differences. I believe the difference comes from a sprinkling of french influence in SC. The Gullah dialect in coastal SC was influenced partial by it too. I worked at a hospital in Charleston where an old black guy spoke it. I didn't understand anything he said for a long time until one day it started making some sense to me what he was saying to me. Was married in Georgetown, SC. That area and North of it are so different and built up now. It's just awful. I remember Pawleys Island when all it was was a 7-11, a Red and White grocery, the Hammock Shops and a caution light at the causeway.

Parris Island is like Mexico...don't drink the water!
Posted By: Dart

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 02:37 PM

Arab in Alabama is A-Rab*

Since the South is peppered with places named after Lafayette, it isn't uncommon to have them pronounced either as in the French or as Lah-Fay-ette to keep them straight.

* They wanted to call the town Ahab, but the poor penmanship on the application was misread by the postal service, and they approved it as Arab. Rather than fight the bureaucracy, they simply kept the name and pronounced it that way. Times ain't much different than back then in so many ways.
Posted By: WharfRat

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 02:40 PM

Try going to Hawaii? Some peeps call it Ha why ee, others say Haw why yah. Then there is a town there called Likelike. It is pronounced leaky-leaky..
Posted By: BD-123

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 02:51 PM

Worcester, my nearest city is pronounced "Wusser", in the local dialect, and the nearest market town Evesham is pronounced "Aysum". My village Naunton Beauchamp; "Norton Beecham"
Posted By: Sunchaser

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 02:52 PM

How about the incorrect way those Yankees in New York pronounce HOUSTON? They say "House" ton, as in what most people live,
not H "you" ston as in the city where the coolest Americans live.
(well, coolest as long as the AC is working.)
Posted By: BD-123

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 02:56 PM

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

is pronounced.........ohh I can't be arsed
Posted By: Nixer

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 03:09 PM

Port Fourchon in Louisiana is pronounced FooshOn
Posted By: Pooch

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 03:22 PM

I live in a town in central Florida that is spelled OVIEDO. Now, this town was named after a small city in Spain. So it's supposed to be pronounced , OH-VEE-AH-DO. But, much to the consternation of my wife, who speaks Spanish, everyone calls it, OH-VEEE-DO. Drives her crazy.
In New York City there is a Houston Street. But New Yorkers don't pronounce it, YOU-STON, like the city in Texas. They say, HOUSE-TON.
Posted By: EAF331 MadDog

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 04:09 PM

I remember once I was going to Loughborough university in the UK for a convention.

I think the BritRail attendant at the ticket kiosk at Standsted was laughing his ass off as I tried to pronounce it as it was spelt
I ended up taking the train to London, then visit a News Agent stall, finding a map of the UK, and writing down the name and showing the note to the next ticket stall I went to.

Lost 2 hours, but got there in the end biggrin
Posted By: Alicatt

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 04:56 PM

The next town along the road from me is Gartochran pronounced as Gart oh Harran

And in the Miller adverts Auchtermuchty is pronounced as "Wear the fox hat" biggrin

Posted By: Dunolde

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 05:30 PM

Here's a couple from Western MA:

Amherst is usually pronounced without the "h" by the local population. i.e. Amerst

Also, Holyoke usually loses the "l" in the mouths of locals: Hoyoke
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by Alicatt


And in the Miller adverts Auchtermuchty is pronounced as "Wear the fox hat" biggrin




I'm stunned that any Scots at all actually bought and consumed Miller beer!!! I'd like to apologize for my country exporting that crap to you guys.
Posted By: NH2112

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 05:43 PM

Contoocook NH is pronounced con-too’-cook’, but locals often pronounce it con-took’-it’. A nearby town named Boscawen sounds more like Bos’-c’w’n, with the “a” & “e” pronounced very quickly, but you’ll often hear locals say it as Bos’-c’-wine.
Posted By: Top Gun

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
I learned something new today. Apparently the city of "Worchester" in Massachusetts is pronounced as "Wooster" and if you pronounce it as written you will get funny looks from the locals. This reminds me of a city in England which is written as "Leicester" but I believe it is pronounced as "Lester" by the locals? Anyway, I find it both interesting and a bit funny how some city names have that discrepancy.


There are so many towns in MA that are like that




Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 05:55 PM

That's kind of an odd video title since um...people who live in MA are also Americans! It should have been something like "Southerners try to pronounce MA towns" or something like that. smile
Posted By: - Ice

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by BD-123
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

is pronounced.........ohh I can't be arsed

And BD just won the thread. biggrin biggrin biggrin



Not a place, but people here say the letter H not as eytch but as hetch, like hatch but with an e. I wonder if that's the same in other places in the UK?
Posted By: F4UDash4

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 06:53 PM

Sugar Tit, South Carolina is pronounced Sugar Tit, South Carolina. biggrin
Posted By: Alicatt

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer

I'm stunned that any Scots at all actually bought and consumed Miller beer!!! I'd like to apologize for my country exporting that crap to you guys.

The only Millers I have drank was supplied, free of charge, by the US Navy, but they made up for it by also supplying a bottle of Bacardi Gold 151 to wash it down with biggrin

Seriously tho, the USN at NAVCOMMSTA Forss supplied 3 cases of various beers* for our American Football team when we went off to our first away match which we won by the way smile

We had a great relationship with the base and the commander encouraged us to come and use the base's facilities, admittedly I had a good friend in the retired commander from the base who had put in a good word for us.

* Miller Draught, Molson Golden, and Red Stripe.

USN article about being stationed at the base
http://navy-radio.com/commsta/thurso-ah-7202.pdf
Posted By: Moved_on

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by - Ice
Not a place, but people here say the letter H not as eytch but as hetch, like hatch but with an e. I wonder if that's the same in other places in the UK?


I grew up in East Sussex and moved just across the border to Kent later and both sides of the border pronounce H with definate and hard A as in "Aytch". Occasionally you hear people prefix it with a very soft "h" that becomes "h-Aytch", but most people around here consider that incorrect. I worked in an office in London until recently and sat next to a Kiwi that always pronounced it as "h-aytch". You would hear a chorus of Brits, (good naturedly), trying to re-educate him. biggrin
Posted By: Dart

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 08:02 PM

Hey, now, don't disparage the Champagne of Beers! It's my favorite.
Posted By: bones

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 08:29 PM

Cairo, IL is pronounced "KAY-ro."

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Posted By: Tom_Weiss

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 08:33 PM

something that makes me cringe every time is : Eye-rack and Eye-ran

this is how it is pronounced

Iraq :
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/En-us-Iraq.ogg

Iran
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Fa-ir-Iran.ogg
Posted By: MarkG

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by Dart
Hey, now, don't disparage the Champagne of Beers! It's my favorite.


Assuming you're not kidding...me too! cheers

Now that I think about it, I haven't had a drink since December. I could go for a Miller High Life right about now.
Posted By: MarkG

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 08:55 PM

I know New Orleans as New Or'-lee-ins but sometimes I hear it called New Or-leens' [or Naw'-lens].
Posted By: - Ice

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by BeeDeeBee
I grew up in East Sussex and moved just across the border to Kent later and both sides of the border pronounce H with definate and hard A as in "Aytch". Occasionally you hear people prefix it with a very soft "h" that becomes "h-Aytch", but most people around here consider that incorrect. I worked in an office in London until recently and sat next to a Kiwi that always pronounced it as "h-aytch". You would hear a chorus of Brits, (good naturedly), trying to re-educate him. biggrin


I work with a guy from NZ with a really strong accent. So much fun smile
Posted By: 531 Ghost

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 10:42 PM

And not all that far from Woostah, there's Peabody. Peebadee wink
Posted By: Dart

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/28/18 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by MarkG
I know New Orleans as New Or'-lee-ins but sometimes I hear it called New Or-leens' [or Naw'-lens].


The latter is correct, as that is how the people from and around there pronounce it.

And I am dead serious when I say Miller High Life is the finest beer produced.
Posted By: KraziKanuK

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 12:14 AM

There was a Canadian beer (Molson) on an American military base?
Posted By: Vertigo1

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 12:22 AM

Originally Posted by NH2112
Calais, France - Ca-lay’
Calais, Maine - Cal’-iss



We have a Calais like that as well.
Posted By: Weasel_Keeper

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 02:29 AM

Indiana has Lafontaine, Ohio had Bellefontaine...both pronounced La Fountain and Bell Fountain.

Detroit...mispronounced as Dee Troit

Lima Peru = LeeMa
Lima Ohio = LieMa

Versailles Indiana...Ver Sails

Monticello Indiana = Monta Sello

Indiana has Dekalb County...and it's DekaLb
Alabama and Georgia has Dekalb County and it's DeeCab

I think the only correctly pronounced French named cities we have in IN are Lafayette, La Porte, Terre Haute, and Vincennes.
Posted By: Weasel_Keeper

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 02:31 AM

Oh, and I hate when people pronounce the S in Illinois! The S is silent! smile
Posted By: saghen

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 03:48 AM

There's Milan in Michigan. Pronounced My-lin instead of Mee-lahn.
Posted By: wheelsup_cavu

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 04:11 AM

Originally Posted by Weasel_Keeper
Oh, and I hate when people pronounce the S in Illinois! The S is silent! smile

Lol, only a transplanted Illinoisan would list that as a pet peeve. I am with you though. smile


Wheels
Posted By: VMIalpha454

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 05:05 AM

LaFayette has been mentioned already, but there’s a little town where I live named that and the natives get really bent out of shape when someone pronounces it correctly, a la Marquis de Lafayette. To them, it’s “Luh Fett.” So if you’re ever in North Georgia and find yourself there, you’ll be in the know wink.
Posted By: MarkG

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 05:08 AM

Originally Posted by Dart
Originally Posted by MarkG
I know New Orleans as New Or'-lee-ins but sometimes I hear it called New Or-leens' [or Naw'-lens].


The latter is correct, as that is how the people from and around there pronounce it.

True dat.

Here's a fourth way it's pronounced...

Wife came home and I asked her, "Where did we see our last air show?" (I didn't want her suspicious as to what I was listening for.)

In her slight Cajun accent she responded, "New Or'-lens."
Posted By: cichlidfan

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 06:16 AM

I think you are assigning too much credibility into something that is more a matter of regional accents combined with a poor command of American English. I can find huge numbers of people that pronounce 'ask' as 'ax' but that doesn't make it correct in any way, shape or form.
Posted By: the soupdragon

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 07:31 AM

try this one smile

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

dont try and say it when your drunk though biggrin biggrin Although saying that I usually sound like this when Im drunk biggrin

here is the correct pronunciation of it.



SD
Posted By: Falstar

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 09:40 AM

My wife is from Oregin (Oregon) and gets mad when I pronounce it Oregon.

My GPS is the biggest mispronouncer ever.
Posted By: Alicatt

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by KraziKanuK
There was a Canadian beer (Molson) on an American military base?

There sure was, there was a case of 24 of each of the beers which I packed into two ice chests for the 117 mile trip to Inverness at the Ness Monster's football pitch to meet the team from Fort william who were driving up. We did share the beers with the team from Ft William and went for a meal with them too, The quarterback of the Ness Monsters (an American) owned a hotel in Inverness and the Ness Monsters had laid on the catering.
Posted By: Tom_Weiss

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by the soupdragon
try this one smile

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

dont try and say it when your drunk though biggrin biggrin Although saying that I usually sound like this when Im drunk biggrin

here is the correct pronunciation of it.



SD


biggrin
Posted By: goon

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 11:58 AM

It should be 'pronunciation(s)'.

In this case a mis-spelling will result in a mis-pronunciation. neaner
Posted By: letterboy1

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 03:18 PM

My favorite is the country Haiti which is apparently pronounced "S**thole."
Posted By: Raw Kryptonite

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/29/18 04:34 PM

We have a Louiseville, pronounced Lewis*ville, not Louie*ville like in KY.
Also Bogue Chitto, "Bogga Chitta". Most don't know what one when they see it on a sign.
Mostly we just have weird names like Whynot, Possumneck, Ethel, Walnut Grove, Sanatorium (note the O not and A), Hot Coffee...
Posted By: nhill40

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/30/18 12:17 AM

We had some doozies in my home state of Iowa - only one that I'm able to recall at the moment though was "Madrid", which was pronounced "mad-RID". Also home to one of the strangest town names I have ever seen: "What Cheer" (which the locals kind of blur into something sounding a little like "watchur" - just barely 2 syllables).

In Colorado, we have a fashionable suburb of Denver by the name of "Louisville" - pronounced "lew-IS-vill".
Posted By: 462cid

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/30/18 02:16 AM

Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
I learned something new today. Apparently the city of "Worchester" in Massachusetts is pronounced as "Wooster" and if you pronounce it as written you will get funny looks from the locals. This reminds me of a city in England which is written as "Leicester" but I believe it is pronounced as "Lester" by the locals? Anyway, I find it both interesting and a bit funny how some city names have that discrepancy.



Thank you for typing "Wooster" and not "Wissta" as literally nobody I ever met in Massachusetts- west, central or eastern Mass- says "Wissta"...and I was born in MA and have lived here for 46 years.

But, there's no "h" in "Worcester" .

Here's one- the Brit racetrack Silverstone is pronounced "Silvastun" . So, I expect, is the town nearby.
Posted By: Weasel_Keeper

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/30/18 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by Raw Kryptonite
We have a Louiseville, pronounced Lewis*ville, not Louie*ville like in KY.



From spending a little time in Louisville KY, a lot of folks pronounce it Luhvll...lol. Kind of like the butchered version of N'awlins. smile

In Tennessee there's a Louisville and they pronounced it Lewis ville too.


PA people...how do you pronounce Wilkes Barre? Wilksberry is what I've heard. And why is Reading like Redding instead of Ree ding? And why is Lancaster "Lin kester"?

Not a town, but my wife (from PA) and everyone I know from PA says radiator is Rad iator instead of Raid iator. wink
Posted By: No105_Archie

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/31/18 12:04 PM

Not a city; but most non-natives can't seem to pronounce the name of my homeland : "Newfoundland". We try to teach CFA's ( come from aways ) to say it like this Understand Newfoundland


The emphasis on the syllables is exactly the same as in the word understand and NOT on the new or the found which are common mistakes. The found is slightly truncated and pronounced somewhere between fund and found so as to fit in with the emphasis on the syllables. ... Understand - Newfoundland

A person from here is a Newfoundlander. Only locals or good friends get to call us "Newfs" or worse "Newfies" ......... its our very own N-word . wink
Posted By: KraziKanuK

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/31/18 02:05 PM

You all have been given the word by a Goofie Newfie. winkngrin
Posted By: No105_Archie

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/31/18 02:12 PM

Remember KK.....that Nfld is like the Texas of Canada........we joined the country late, we are fiercely independent, and heavily armed wink

the absolute BEST way to get into a fight with one of us is to use the phrase "Goofie Newfie" in a bar after "several" beers biggrin
Posted By: KraziKanuK

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/31/18 04:20 PM

I guess pulling up fishing nets give you all arms like Popeye. winkngrin

Worked with a Newf many years ago and he was crazy. He didn't mind being called Goofie (the nick we gave him).
Posted By: No105_Archie

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/31/18 05:37 PM

He didn't mind because he considered you to be a friend smile
Posted By: bones

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/31/18 09:56 PM

So here's that quaint little town in Austria we visited that is always mispronounced:

Austrian Village

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Posted By: KraziKanuK

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 03/31/18 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by No105_Archie
He didn't mind because he considered you to be a friend smile


And was in an almost perpetual state of intoxication or stoned.
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 04/02/18 11:00 AM

Wasn't there a South Park episode that had characters from Newfoundland? smile
Posted By: No105_Archie

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 04/02/18 02:54 PM

don't know ...I didn't South Park
Posted By: Paradaz

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 04/06/18 07:56 PM

Bicester, England

Pronounced 'Bister'


Wales, UK

Pronounced 'hangingoutofthebackofasheep'
Posted By: Alicatt

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 04/06/18 09:37 PM

Was on the train from Glasgow Central to Alexandria and was reminded that there is a town not far away called Milngavie which is pronounced Mill-Guy
Posted By: Khai

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 04/06/18 09:40 PM

Originally Posted by Paradaz


Wales, UK

Pronounced 'hangingoutofthebackofasheep'




Baaaaaaaa-stard
Posted By: Alicatt

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 04/06/18 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by Khai
Originally Posted by Paradaz


Wales, UK

Pronounced 'hangingoutofthebackofasheep'




Baaaaaaaa-stard

Nah her name was Baarbara
Posted By: KraziKanuK

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 04/07/18 02:03 PM

Derby pronounced Darby.
Posted By: coasty

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 04/08/18 09:51 PM

Leicester and Rutherfordton North Carolina, Lester and Rofton.
Posted By: PanzerMeyer

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 04/09/18 11:24 AM

There's also the commonly known Greenwich, Connecticut. I think pretty much everyone knows it's "Gren-itch". smile
Posted By: semmern

Re: City names with totally different pronounciations - 04/09/18 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
There's also the commonly known Greenwich, Connecticut. I think pretty much everyone knows it's "Gren-itch". smile


And the aviation and military worlds are of course always on Gren-itch Mean Time smile
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