# Describe a city using only one-syllable words, try to guess other posters' cities **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 22, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256 "2025-01-22T15:39:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/121 "2025-01-23T15:11:42Z")
Sandusky? > **[https://preview.redd.it/sandusky-ohios-street-layout-i-just-recently-discovered-...](https://preview.redd.it/sandusky-ohios-street-layout-i-just-recently-discovered-this-v0-cyd35g0wdde91.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c2c2b89fa0ffb485d0763fe7d2cd531522120059)** ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/122 "2025-01-23T15:23:09Z")
Yes, Sandusky. Good job! ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/123 "2025-01-23T15:28:44Z")
This town has a team, they play the sport where you kick a ball with your feet into a goal. For years and years and years, this town’s team sucked ass. Then two rich guys from the States bought the team. They made a show and spent much cash, and now the town’s team is good. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/124 "2025-01-23T15:32:05Z")
Gotta be Wrexham! ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/125 "2025-01-23T15:32:57Z")
Wrexham it is! And I fucked up - I used the word “into” in the first sentence. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/126 "2025-01-23T15:35:55Z")
It’s a hard thing to do, to use small words and no big ones. (Had to write that two times, then got it right!) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/127 "2025-01-23T15:56:05Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > I fucked up - I used the word “into” in the first sentence. > [@SunUp](#): > > It’s a hard thing to do, to use small words and no big ones. Yeah, when I did my entry yesterday, for the city of Detroit, I must have proofed it 3 or 4 times to make sure there were no two-syllable words. Then today I just recently noticed I used the word ‘going’ 🤦‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Frilly\_Heck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@Frilly\_Heck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frilly_Heck)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/128 "2025-01-23T20:44:39Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Easy peasy! Tucson. > > Easy because I live here. You got it, fellow Old Pueblan! ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/129 "2025-01-24T01:50:49Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > A town in the north east of the state that leads it. I checked a map for my first two thoughts—Boston and Montpelier—but decided that they weren’t far enough north and east, respectively. Topeka, KS? ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/130 "2025-01-24T01:55:30Z")
Has a fort of fame. Lots of homes with color. Close to the sea. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/131 "2025-01-24T03:02:00Z")
San Juan?? ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/132 "2025-01-24T03:02:50Z")
Not San Juan ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/133 "2025-01-24T03:03:41Z")
Got it! ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/134 "2025-01-24T03:09:08Z")
By the way: “color” has two syllables. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/135 "2025-01-24T03:10:00Z")
Charleston? New Orleans? ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/136 "2025-01-24T03:11:05Z")
Yes Charleston. Sorry about color - brain fog lol ---
**Author:** ![Frilly\_Heck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@Frilly\_Heck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frilly_Heck)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/137 "2025-01-24T15:13:54Z")
I see it has been solved already, but I would have guessed Helsinki from that description. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/138 "2025-01-24T15:54:28Z")
Big town in the far north. A brand of chaw sold in the States bears the same name. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/139 "2025-01-24T15:57:14Z")
Calgary? I have no thought why my brain came up with that. I would have said that I know no brands of chaw. But it might be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/140 "2025-01-24T16:20:12Z")
Copenhagen, maybe? Here’s one to try: This town is in the way far north. Seeds are kept here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256.md?page=8)