# How many US cities share a common (but mispronounced) name with a world city? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2003, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-us-cities-share-a-common-but-mispronounced-name-with-a-world-city/179796 "2003-06-05T11:58:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-us-cities-share-a-common-but-mispronounced-name-with-a-world-city/179796/81 "2003-06-07T06:03:52Z")
There’s a Moscow(pronounced moss-cow), TN and another Canton in Mississippi(pronounced liked the one in ohio). -Lil ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-us-cities-share-a-common-but-mispronounced-name-with-a-world-city/179796/82 "2003-06-07T10:41:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Debaser \* > \*\*Nope. That’s not correct. > > It’s **wus-TA**! > > An ‘r’ ? At the end of a word ? In Massachusetts ? No way. \*\* If it’s two syllabals, that’s close enough. Same for B’ham. I think worrying about about stresses is overkill 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-us-cities-share-a-common-but-mispronounced-name-with-a-world-city/179796/83 "2003-06-07T22:20:44Z")
Moskva, yeah. Probably in Russian. Interestingly, I worked with two women who were both born in Russia and moved to Seattle _from_ Moscow, and each one pronounced it MOS-coh. FISH [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-us-cities-share-a-common-but-mispronounced-name-with-a-world-city/179796.md?page=4)