# It's GAYLORD! GAY- LORD! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 23, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940 "2022-05-23T16:03:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/1 "2022-05-23T16:03:02Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/2 "2022-05-23T16:32:39Z")
Agreed. MN also has a city called Gaylord. I’ve never heard it mispronounced, but I’m sure it has happened frequently though. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/3 "2022-05-23T16:36:11Z")
Carmel, Indiana is frequently mispronounced as if it were that California city. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/4 "2022-05-23T17:05:55Z")
How is it pronounced, then? Accent on ‘Car’ instead of ‘mel’? ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/5 "2022-05-23T17:09:08Z")
Grew up in Michigan. Always heard it pronounced GAY-lerd. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/6 "2022-05-23T17:12:17Z")
Sal-I-nah KS versus Sa-leen-ass CA ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/7 "2022-05-23T17:37:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/8 "2022-05-23T18:03:57Z")
Yep. CAR-muhl. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/9 "2022-05-23T18:32:58Z")
I’ve always heard it as Gaylerd. Charlotte is Shar lot ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/10 "2022-05-23T23:55:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/11 "2022-05-24T00:00:20Z")
Beatrice, Ne. is pronounced by the yokels, I mean locals, “Bee AT triss”. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/12 "2022-05-24T00:06:28Z")
My cousin lives in Salina. Oddly enough, when I was married I was in California and we had to go to the Salinas courthouse. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/13 "2022-05-24T00:37:29Z")
We say Eldorado emphasis on ‘ra’ as ray. Not ‘ra’ as rah ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/14 "2022-05-24T01:35:39Z")
In Ohio it’d LY-muh, not LEE-muh. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/15 "2022-05-24T03:50:55Z")
This one will leave your head spinning: how do you pronounce _Mackinac_, as in Mackinac Island, etc. in northern Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/16 "2022-05-24T04:14:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/17 "2022-05-24T04:26:44Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > In Ohio it’d LY-muh, not LEE-muh. 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. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/18 "2022-05-24T04:39:05Z")
This message board votes mostly “GAY-lerd”: > **[how do you pronounce Gaylord (Hartford, Grayling: home, live, moving to) -...](https://www.city-data.com/forum/michigan/2612897-how-do-you-pronounce-gaylord.html)** > > Someone and I were discussing this recently and wondered if we have been pronouncing it incorrectly. When referring to the city in Michigan is it > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/19 "2022-05-24T04:39:52Z")
One of these days, you’ll learn to properly pronounce one of the two counties you live in. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/20 "2022-05-24T05:08:02Z")
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.”) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940.md?page=2)