# Missouri vs. Missoura **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 6, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-vs-missoura/180155 "2003-06-06T19:31:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-vs-missoura/180155/61 "2011-05-28T21:18:31Z")
> [@barbitu8](#): > > {snip}He replied, “You’re velcome.” Benny Hill’s estate called for you. They were asking something about royalties.😃 FWIW, my mother’s, mother’s, mother’s, mother was named “Missouri” but the family pronounced it, "Miz 'zʊ rə. I don’t know when she was born, but the earliest US census in which she appears is 1850.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![pacman560](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@pacman560](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pacman560)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-vs-missoura/180155/62 "2022-03-09T20:10:25Z")
The correct pronunciation of Missouri is M’zoorah or M’zooruh. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-vs-missoura/180155/63 "2022-03-09T22:46:09Z")
Not in my part of the state, it isn’t. Now go warsh your mouth out with soap. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-vs-missoura/180155/64 "2022-03-10T14:04:19Z")
to me its Missouree. I do have to mention that I saw a lady on the weather channel correctly say the city name Nevada. I was quite impressed. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-vs-missoura/180155/65 "2022-03-10T14:11:23Z")
> [@Bradjam](#): > > “Awaia”? Very well, thank you! “Awaia”? 😈 ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-vs-missoura/180155/66 "2022-03-13T18:48:39Z")
why the insults/hatred? ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-vs-missoura/180155/67 "2022-03-13T18:52:37Z")
but it’s inconsistent–if you want to pronounce Louis French-style, then you should pronounce Saint as San rather than Saant ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-vs-missoura/180155/68 "2022-03-13T20:50:22Z")
I just want to point out that the post you’re commenting about was made in February 2011, and that poster has not been on this Board since 2013. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-vs-missoura/180155/69 "2022-04-14T02:23:36Z")
Audibly it’s not much different than Missourah with the different accents, but I always took the final “i” to be the short _i_ sound from “hit”. "Missour-_ **i** _ " (yes, replying to old posts on an old post) ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-vs-missoura/180155/70 "2022-04-17T16:58:19Z")
Dang near twenty years and nobody but Jasmine hit on the Awaii/hawaii thing…sigh, well can’t blame nobody but m’seff fer that. To answer the decrepit op factually, about Awaii anyway, because that used to be the anglicised way of pronouncing Hawaii way back then. There is an entire county, river, and mountain range in my state named Owyhee which is a corruption of Awaii. Here’s a wikipedia [link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owyhee_County,_Idaho) that explains how a mainland mountain range gets named a version of “Hawai’i” (it’s under etymology instead of history section) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-vs-missoura/180155.md?page=3)