Mangled pronunciation of cities and other things near you

[Tiggamoo]

*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.

[Linus_Van_Pelt]

*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.

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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.
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[Squish]

*Originally posted by Linus Van Pelt *
**<brief hijack>
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.
<end hijack> **

I lived in Phoenix from 1965, then moved to Pres-kit in 1998.

[Arken]

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

[bobopoo]

I always found it funny that locals called it Pee-EB-low instead of the rest of the world calling it PWEB-low.

[TBG]

Macomb County, it’s muh-COMB, not MAY-comb (comb pronounced just like the thing you might use on your hair)

[Senegoid]

@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)