Tornado(s) killed 2 in Gaylord, MI last Friday and it has received some national reporting. I’m pretty sure every newscaster I hear is saying “Gaylerd.” (Even some from Michigan.)
It’s GAY-LORD!
Agreed. MN also has a city called Gaylord. I’ve never heard it mispronounced, but I’m sure it has happened frequently though.
Carmel, Indiana is frequently mispronounced as if it were that California city.
How is it pronounced, then? Accent on ‘Car’ instead of ‘mel’?
Grew up in Michigan. Always heard it pronounced GAY-lerd.
Sal-I-nah KS versus Sa-leen-ass CA
You may be right but I vacationed up there throughout my childhood in the 70s (lived in Detroit) and never heard it pronounced that way. Perhaps it has morphed.
Yep. CAR-muhl.
I’ve always heard it as Gaylerd.
Charlotte is Shar lot
So is the one in North Carolina. Might be better if you spelled it shar LOT.
I am agnostic on the subject of Gaylord, having only driven through it and seen it as a dot on an atlas.
Beatrice, Ne. is pronounced by the yokels, I mean locals, “Bee AT triss”.
My cousin lives in Salina. Oddly enough, when I was married I was in California and we had to go to the Salinas courthouse.
We say Eldorado emphasis on ‘ra’ as ray.
Not ‘ra’ as rah
In Ohio it’d LY-muh, not LEE-muh.
This one will leave your head spinning: how do you pronounce Mackinac, as in Mackinac Island, etc. in northern Michigan.
And speaking of mispronunciations that are irritating, I have one.
My HS history book said it is pronounced 'DIH-troyt".
Detroit is pronounced ‘DEE-troyt’, always has been, always will. I grew up there, and I never heard that pronunciation in my life.
There’s a Lima, Illinois. When my dad took the public bus up to the Boy Scout Camp from Quincy he’d hear old men call Lima Limey.
This message board votes mostly “GAY-lerd”:
Lived 20 minutes from Gaylord the first 20 years of my life. It’s pronounced gay-lerd. You get snickers from the locals if you pronounce it gay-lord.
One of these days, you’ll learn to properly pronounce one of the two counties you live in.
That’s an easy one, as it’s a popular enough destination for Chicagoans. MACK-ih-naw." We drove through the town of Bourbonnais this weekend. It’s typically pronounced like “bourbon” + “ay” but some old timers still pronounce it as “burr-BOW-niss.” (But, officially, since 1974 the town’s name is pronounced as “burr-buh-NAY.”)