# 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:** 3
**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 25, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/41 "2022-05-25T22:05:00Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > “Bob-lo.” That’s painful. But then we have a town, Le Seuer, literally “the sewer” that locals pronounce LEE-sewer. It follows a back bend on the Minnesota river, and sometimes in summer, it can smell pretty ripe. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/42 "2022-05-26T10:28:51Z")
> [@HelenGawn](#): > > I give you [Natchitoches](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchitoches,_Louisiana) Is there an ointment for that? ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/43 "2022-05-26T16:51:51Z")
I grew up there also and I have always heard it pronounced Dee-TROYT. Accent on the second syllable. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/44 "2022-05-26T16:54:43Z")
I lived in Missouri for a while and many of the locals call it “Mizz-oor-ah” which just seemed wrong. Others, however, preferred (knowingly) to simply refer to it as “Misery”. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/45 "2022-05-26T17:56:06Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > And in England, even people who live in Shrewsbury disagree about whether it’s Shroe or Shroo. Thank you! I’ve been catching this old UK TV show called _Escape to the Country_. Most of the presenters pronounce it Shrewsbury, but, one of the them (the one I think looks just like Lord Farquar from _Shrek_) always says Shroesbury, so, I was really confused. ---
**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 27, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/46 "2022-05-27T01:00:47Z")
> [@Jim\_B](#): > > My HS history book said it is pronounced 'DIH-troyt". I suspect you are misremembering that. It probably said it’s pronounced “dih-TROYT,” as that is – I think – how most people outside of Detroit pronounce it (like me, though I tend to schwa the first syllable. If you look on [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com) or [m-w.com](http://m-w.com), that will be the only pronunciation offered by the former, and the latter lists that as the first pronunciation.) DIH-troyt is kinda weird. ---
**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 27, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/47 "2022-05-27T01:36:49Z")
If I could I’d amend my last post. “Dih-TROYT” is indeed the most common local pronunciation of Detroit. ---
**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 28, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/48 "2022-05-28T13:54:48Z")
This is weird. I’ve lived all my life in the greater Metropolitan Detroit area, and now I’ve tried saying ‘Detroit’ several times trying to figure out how exactly do I say it. Definitely an accent on the second syllable, though I have heard ‘DEE-troyt’, as in an announcer saying ‘the DEE-troyt Lions win the game!” (Ok, I don’t hear that _ **particular** _ phrase all that often). I think for me it’s sort of in the middle between ‘dih-TROYT’ and ‘dee-TROYT’. ---
**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 28, 2022, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/49 "2022-05-28T14:08:55Z")
I call it the DTW , the 313 or De-Twah. Yeah all in Dih-Troyt. ---
**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 28, 2022, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/50 "2022-05-28T15:08:01Z")
Sometimes when I hear it as “dee-troyt” is sounds like the accent is almost equal on the two syllables. Like, using poetic scansion, I would label it as a spondee. The dictionaries I’ve checked all seem to put the accent on the first syllable when the “dee” pronunciation is given. So much so, that Merriam-Webster says, after the “dih-TROYT” pronuncation, this note: "_locally also_ ˈdē-ˌtrȯit " Note the tick before the first syllable indicating stress. I find that odd, as, even though I’m not from the area, “DEE-troyt” sounds like an exaggerated pronunciation to me, and one I use from time-to-time facetiously. ---
**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 28, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/51 "2022-05-28T15:10:26Z")
I’ve just discovered the the state of Michigan has on [online pronunciation guide with audio](https://www.michigan.gov/leo/bureaus-agencies/bureau-of-services-for-blind-persons/btbl/pronunciation-guide-you-say-it-how-in-michigan)! According to that it’s “Gay-lerd” and “DEE-troyt.” But (IMO) it’s WRONG! (Well… I’m starting to concede “Gaylerd.” ---
**Author:** ![Retzbu\_Tox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retzbu_tox/32/11829_2.png) [@Retzbu\_Tox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Retzbu_Tox)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/52 "2022-05-29T02:27:36Z")
I used to know a guy named Gaylord. He pronounced it Gay-lord, not Gay-lerd. Considering one of his hobbies was throwing and catching knives with his buddies (their hands always had bandages on them), I would pronounce his name however he preferred it. ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/53 "2022-05-29T02:35:43Z")
I think as a name it is usually gay-lord. Like the former MLB pitcher Gaylord Perry. We had a big street gang here in Chicago in 80s, too, called the Gaylords, also pronounced as gay-lordz, but they seem to have dissipated. Wikipedia says they still exist, but I haven’t heard much about them in the last couple of decades. (They also simply might not be very active in my neighborhood, which is mostly Latin Kings, Satan’s Disciples, and a sprinkling of Two-Six.) ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/54 "2022-05-29T04:09:00Z")
I say Dih-troyt unless I am talking about the airport, when it becomes Dee-troyt Wayne. I can’t explain it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/55 "2022-05-29T15:21:35Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I think as a name it is usually gay-lord. Like the former MLB pitcher Gaylord Perry. Or [Gaylord Carter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Carter), the organist. I saw a silent movie at a revival house in L.A. (or The Valley) in the '80s, and Gaylord Carter played the accompaniment. ---
**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 29, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/56 "2022-05-29T17:49:39Z")
My kid had an elementary teacher named Mercedes Hanks. She was called Ma-shed-ess. Not like the car Mercedes. No ‘R’ sound in her name. I thought that was strange . ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/57 "2022-05-29T17:56:34Z")
Southern state perhaps? Lost the R to the regional dialect, like DeKalb County, Georgia lost the L sound (DeKabb). ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/58 "2022-05-29T18:19:45Z")
I live in Camas, WA. People here pronounce it CAM-us (short A sound on first syllable, as in ‘cat’). Also located here is Lacamas Lake. People here emphasize the first syllable with a short A sound. LA-cuh-mus. ---
**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 29, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/59 "2022-05-29T18:49:33Z")
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution has a column called The Vent, and according to it, “real” southerners pronounce the L in DeKalb. Also from that source, McDonough is properly pronounced Mack Donna. Georgians do pronounce the L in walk, talk and salmon. ---
**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 29, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940/60 "2022-05-29T18:58:52Z")
Peeps around here say ‘acts’ for ‘ask’. I always thought it was just lazy speaking. For what ever reason. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-gaylord-gay-lord/964940.md?page=4)