# Mangled pronunciation of cities and other things near you **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 3, 2002, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-pronunciation-of-cities-and-other-things-near-you/107008 "2002-05-03T04:20:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Tiggamoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Tiggamoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiggamoo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-pronunciation-of-cities-and-other-things-near-you/107008/101 "2002-05-07T01:46:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hillbilly queen \* > \*\*There’s a town here in Tn. that makes me cringe when I hear the locals pronounce it. > Lafayette - most people would say La-fee-ET, but around here it’s > La-FAYet. \*\* That’s the same way it’s pronounced by the locals in Lafayette County, MS. If you move there or just visit, you learn that fast. A nearby county from there is Pontotoc County and if you aren’t from there most people call it Pon-tot-toc. The locals call it Ponna-toc. I was watching The Weather Channel one day and they called Itawamba County, MS: I-ta-wame-ba but it’s pronouced more like Itta-wamba. I thought it was hi-larry-us at the time but maybe it’s just me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linus_Van_Pelt)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-pronunciation-of-cities-and-other-things-near-you/107008/102 "2002-05-07T04:56:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Squish \* > \*\*…I forgot about Gila Bend being mangled so often. Would you believe that way back in the 60s and 70s you’d occasionally hear a tourist refer to the ‘Nava-JOE’??? (There should be a smiley for ‘banging one’s head on the nearest solid object’.) \*\* I’ve lived here all of my life and I’ve never heard _that_ one. I think the Navajo tribe is well enough known to avoid it, for the most part. \ Where in AZ do you keep that cryopod of yours? I know there’s a few AZ dopers around here, but most of them seem to be on the east side. \ ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-pronunciation-of-cities-and-other-things-near-you/107008/103 "2002-05-07T05:20:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Linus Van Pelt \* > \*\*\ > Where in AZ do you keep that cryopod of yours? I know there’s a few AZ dopers around here, but most of them seem to be on the east side. > \ \*\* I lived in Phoenix from 1965, then moved to Pres-kit 😉 in 1998. ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-pronunciation-of-cities-and-other-things-near-you/107008/104 "2002-05-07T10:17:54Z")
Now let’s see someone tell us how to pronounce the name of the city of Bangkok in Thai: Krungthepmahanakonbowornratanakosinmahintarayudyayamahadiloponoparatanarajthaniburiromudomrajniwesmahasatarnamornpimarnavatarsatitsakattiyavisanukamphrasit Or the lovely Welsh city of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch or the hill in New Zealand called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bobopoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@bobopoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobopoo)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-pronunciation-of-cities-and-other-things-near-you/107008/105 "2012-05-31T17:35:14Z")
I always found it funny that locals called it Pee-EB-low instead of the rest of the world calling it PWEB-low. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-pronunciation-of-cities-and-other-things-near-you/107008/106 "2012-05-31T23:52:04Z")
Macomb County, it’s muh-COMB, not MAY-comb (comb pronounced just like the thing you might use on your hair) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-pronunciation-of-cities-and-other-things-near-you/107008/107 "2012-06-01T03:42:29Z")
> [@LolaBaby](#): > > Palley? 😃 Yes, and stop at the overlook where all the [del]gringo[/del] haole malihinis come to see where King Kammy-Hammy-Ha (or something like that) defeated Oahu. ☹ Kamehameha – Ka - ME - ha - ME - ha (ME = may ; vowels as in Spanish) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-pronunciation-of-cities-and-other-things-near-you/107008.md?page=5)