How Do You Pronounce It?

[leweee]

In Canada.....which prompted the saying "Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy.
                  Shaps or no shaps.

[farmerdoug]

Here is one for you guys to figure out.

There is a road to the south of me that is named after the family of a lady that sells at a farmers market I sell at.

The name is spelled Schoenherr as in Schoenherr Road, but it is pronounced Shanner Road.

Farmerdoug

[Ron Wenrich]

How about this town in PA - Uwchlyn.  That's pronounced Yuck lyn.  We also have Schoeneck - pronounced Shen eck. 

We can always tell the foreigners in our area.  They can't pronounce Lancaster or Lebanon like the natives, and Lititz and Ephrata can also be a challenge.   

[Tom]

We get a big kick out of the ones that pronounce Kissimmee, Kiss-a-me instead of Kiss-sim'-ee.  A dead giveaway of a new newscaster.   
Or Or-mond' Beach instead of Or'-mun
or yew'gallee  instead of awe-gallee (Eau Gallie)

or May-cone instead of Ma'kun (Macon)

or Hughs-ton instead of House-ton (Houston, Ga.)

or Vid-el'-ia instead of Vi'-dail'-yuh  (Vidalia)


It's so easy to give yourself away when in a different part of the country than you are accustomed.

[Paschale]

One of my teachers when I was in high school relayed a story about her son, who had a lisp at the time.  Sofa always came out "thofa."  Well, his dad decided to give him some grief one time, and when he was sitting on the sofa, he asked his son to tell him where he was sitting.  The kid of course said, "on the thofa, dad."

Dad:  "On the thofa?"

Kid:  "No, dad....on the THOfa," emphasizing the THO, which to his ears, sounded like an "S."

Dad, again says, "did you say thofa?"

Kid:  "Dad...it's the THOfa, you know that!"

Dad:  "The thofa?  I'm trying to say it right..."

Kid, in exasperation:  "Gee dad, why do you keep saying it wrong?  If you can't say 'THOfa," say couch."

 

[Phorester]

Native and non-native pronounciations are interesting.  Like shaps and chaps.

We've got a small town in Virginia spelled Crewe, pronounced crew.  Lots of newbes pronounce it cree-wee.

Staunton is pronounced Stan-ton, not staw-ton.   

Opequon Creek really gest mangled, as it was by me when I first moved here 30 years ago.   But it's pronounced O-peck-un.

Interesting to hear these mispronounced by newscasters on radio or TV.

[sawguy21]

Look at a modern map of the arctic and try to pronounce some the Inuit place names. Here a lot of the names are corruptions of native Indian words like Shuswap, pronounced shooshwop by most locals but also shoeswop.

[Grawulf]

Not to mention pasties...............I told you not to mention them!

[isawlogs]

 If you wanta challenge , ya should try to come here at least once and try to pss as a local .  .

[sawguy21]

Think I'll pass, Marcel

[Cedarman]

When I first moved to Dubois Pa, I quickly found out there is an s at the end and to use it.

[saddletramp]

Howdy Phorester. Just to set the fence line straight about that so called cowboy from wyoming the real cowboys come from Kansas. Too Dang many sheep in wyoming.

[Phorester]

Y'all pronounce that sheep or cheep?

[saddletramp]

In Wyoming they pronounce it sheep as in shhhh

[Minnesota_boy]

If you wanta challenge , ya should try to come here at least once and try to pss as a local .  .

I have trouble trying to pass as a local here where I was born and lived for over 50 years.