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DaMonsterKnees ,

I, an east coaster, once bought a car from Texarkana. When I learned it was literally on the border of Texas and Arkansas, I think my brain broke. Great share, thanks!

wjrii ,

Well, which Texarkana did you buy it from?

DaMonsterKnees ,

Arkansas side. Drunken ebay purchase out in the sticks that amazingly worked out. '72 olds 98 that sounded like a c47 on approach. Thanks for listening to my lame nonsense.

pruwybn ,
@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Wait till you hear where Calexico and Mexicali are.

mrsemi ,

The location of Texhoma will shock you

HobbitFoot ,

There was a disagreement on how to pronounce Arkansas; the first two US senators from Arkansas disagreed on how to say it.

Congress ended up having to request the Arkansas legislature in defining how to pronounce the state name.

WhatAmLemmy ,

If you want people to call you Arkansaw, don’t spell it Arkansas. Thankyou for coming to my TED Talk.

BaroqueInMind ,

Why not just ask the fucking Quapaw tribe they stole the name from?

NOT_RICK ,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

There’s a Newark NJ and a Newark DE.

The Jersey one is pronounced Newurk and the Delaware one is pronounced New Ark. It’s mildly inconvenient.

wjrii , (edited )

The little town in Texas is also “New Ark”.

Some of my other favorites:

Texas

  • Montague = mon-TAYG (hard ‘g’)
  • Italy = IT-lee (2 syllables)
  • Buda = BUD-duh (EDIT: or is it BYOO-duh ?)

Georgia

  • Vienna = VYE-eena
  • Cairo = KAY-roe

Canada (less experience here, tbf)

  • Newfoundland = NEW-fin-LAND (do NOT slur the “land” part. Enunciate!)
JustZ ,
@JustZ@lemmy.world avatar

That’s some certifiable insane shit.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Arab, Alabama. (Ay-rab)

sangriaferret ,

See also: Lafayette (Le-FAY-it)

ninjabard ,

Texas has so many. Bogota pronounced buh-GO-duh

Arkansas has a Lafayette county pronounced luh-FAY-it even though that county literally borders Louisiana.

Don’t even get me started on Bowie, DeKalb, or Houston.

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Ah yes. “Hoo-ston” and “How-ston” are definitely both things.

“De-kab” and “De-kalb”

Haven’t run into the Bowie one.

KingJalopy ,

Company I work for is based in Buda but everyone pronounces it “byooduh”.

wjrii ,

I defer to you then. I just know it’s not Booduh like it god damned well should be. Was reminded elsewhere in this thread that we also have a Ne-VAY-duh in Texas, to say nothing of the Native American placenames that almost every state has specifically to fuck with newcomers, even though they undoubtedly moved from a state that has its own examples.

KingJalopy ,

Lol, that’s what I thought it was until they corrected me on the phone. I don’t live anywhere near there but that’s how they say it to me.

tiredofsametab ,

There's also a Newark Ohio which is pronounced something like 'nu-urk' or even 'nurk' by some (the latter I always took as people being silly, but I don't even know anymore).

mkwt ,

Here’s the really crazy thing.

Ark City, KS is located on the Ar-KAN-sas River. But this is the same river that flows through Little Rock under the name AR-kan-saw.

BaroqueInMind ,

We come through and destroy an entire native civilization, and as a final “fuck you” we butcher their dead languages and name military equipment after them.

kagrocery ,

TBH, I’m a native Kansan and have only ever heard it called “Ark City.”

JustZ ,
@JustZ@lemmy.world avatar

That makes sense. It’s like back in Morocco, how Morocco Mole is just called Mole.

JustZ ,
@JustZ@lemmy.world avatar

And in Brazil, Brazil Nuts are just called nuts.

homesweethomeMrL ,

(X) Doubt

Protoknuckles ,

And on Long Island, it’s just called “tea”.

JustZ ,
@JustZ@lemmy.world avatar

You’ve got it.

Caligvla ,
@Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

They’re actually called Castanha do Pará (Pará Nuts), but whatever.

JustZ ,
@JustZ@lemmy.world avatar

What do they call the in Pará then?

BackOnMyBS ,
@BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place avatar

Brazil nuts

Caligvla ,
@Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Fuck if I know, I’ve never been there lol.

tiredofsametab ,

Ohio is great for shit pronunciations of town names.

Bellfountaine - bell FOUN'n (the t drops there in most dialects, some would say 'fountain' with the the first syllable stressed).

Versailles - verSAILS

Medina - muhDYEnuh

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

We have “verSAILS” in Indiana too. Also:

Peru - Pee-roo

Russiaville - Roosha-vil

Lebanon - Leb’nun

My favorite though is that there are two spellings for the Wabash river: Wabash and Ouabache. And despite being in a town that is on the Wabash River, the local Oabache Elementary School is pronounced: Wah-bat-shee.

hate2bme ,

Right down the road from Versailles is the town I grew up in and the movie Hoosiers is based off of. Milan (pronounced my - lan)

tiredofsametab ,

I think y'all also have KAY-row (Cairo) if I remember right. (or maybe that's Illinois?)

victory ,
@victory@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

My extended family is from a tiny Ohio hill town named Antioch, pronounced “annie-OCK”.

tiredofsametab ,

I've been there a couple of times. I say the 't' in anti, but I guess the locals don't

KingJalopy ,

There’s a Miami, Oklahoma. Pronounced, “My-am-uh”

sangriaferret ,

Y’all come to New Orleans and try to pronounce a single street name “right.”

thebigslime ,

Bourbon Street

Silverseren ,

That's some high tier psychological damage right there.

mrsemi , (edited )

Miami, Oklahoma (/maɪˈæmə/ my-AM-ə)

Nevada, Missouri (/nɪˈveɪdə/ niv-AY-də)

Natchitoches, Louisiana (/ˈnækətəʃ/ NAK-ə-təsh), or “Nakadish”

Cadeillac ,
@Cadeillac@lemmy.world avatar

That’s how they pronounce Nevada County in Arkansas. Also, Dierks is Dereks. I’m sure there are more that will come to me

wjrii ,

Natchitoches, Louisiana (/ˈnækətəʃ/ NAK-ə-təsh), or “Nakadish”

Yet Nacogdoches, Texas is more or less how you would think, Nack-uh-doe-chiss.

mrsemi ,

Pretty sure there’s a g in there

wjrii ,

Well, I reckon that phrase “more or less” that I put in my previous comment is having to do a fair bit of work.

42yeah ,

I learned that from the Big Bang Theory!

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