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Post by scrappysurfer on Feb 4, 2016 12:27:02 GMT
Our state capitol has a street named Huger which should be pronounced the French way... "eu - gee." But bless the little pea-picking hearts of many South Carolinans. I hear it pronounced "hugger" with great regularity. When we had all the catastrophic flooding here back in October, a national newscaster even pronounced it "hue - gare." Along the same lines, and old Charleston name Legare is actually pronounced Le-Gree... I know this because I was born and raised here although I clearly don't look like it; I often have patients with that name and they're always surprised that I know the correct pronunciation.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Feb 4, 2016 13:29:26 GMT
Along the same lines, and old Charleston name Legare is actually pronounced Le-Gree... I know this because I was born and raised here although I clearly don't look like it; I often have patients with that name and they're always surprised that I know the correct pronunciation. My husband's boss and his wife gave that middle name to their daughter. They chose it due to the street named Legare in Charleston having personal significance for them.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 4, 2016 14:57:05 GMT
Anyone of my vintage probably remembers the show 90210, and in one of the early episodes Brandon and Brenda (the kids) are talking with friends about where they came from in Minnesota. She replied, "WAY-zah-duh" (spelled Wayzata) and I think I felt the entire state collectively cringe! It's actually pronounced why-ZET-uh. It drives me nuts when things like that happen on tv, don't they have someone to check that stuff first?
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Post by bbkeef on Feb 4, 2016 15:17:47 GMT
Crazy4scraps-I'm from Minnesota (near Wayzata)! There are a lot of American Indian named cities, towns and counties in MN and a few that come to mind:
Shakopee-SHOCK o pee Mahtomedi- motto MEE die Kanabec county- kuh NAY beck Lutsen-Loot sen oh and Xerxes Avenue- ZERK sees
You can always tell when we get a new news anchor that can't pronounce them correctly.
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Post by MorellisCupcake on Feb 4, 2016 15:47:49 GMT
I live in St Louis and there are a lot of French names around here that I think are mispronounced. I'm from Canada so kind of have an ear for French, and am used to pronouncing things the French way. (i.e. Boucher is boo-shay, not bow-cher). The ones that set my teeth on edge? DeBaliviere Place has some of the most beautiful homes in St. Louis. I think it should be "duh-bah-liv-ee-eh" while the people of St. Louis call it "duh-boll-uh-ver." This one should be easy. Bellefontaine. Bell-fon-tayne. But here? Bell-fountain. And Gravois Road. Grav-wah road. But no, it's Grav-oize. Painful. French is such a beautiful language and those just make me cringe.
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Post by anonrefugee on Feb 4, 2016 15:50:42 GMT
I'm odd-pea-out. I find the variety of pronunciations kind of endearing. Plus it keeps you on your toes.
Were you on RoDAYoh Drive, or RoDEEoh Lane? Was the restaurant in HUGHston, or on HOWston?
We are losing so many regional dialects in the US, I'm glad there's still some variety left.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Feb 4, 2016 16:16:36 GMT
I've lived in 4 areas where there has been a Lafayette. All 4 pronounce it somewhat differently.
*The county in Miss. is pronounced la-FAY-ette (emphasis on Fay) *Meanwhile the city in Louisiana is pronounced Laffee-ette (kind of rhymes with laugh). *And in California the town in the East Bay is pronounced Lah-fay-ette. *In France, the pronunciation is Lah-feye-ette (the feye rhymes with eye)
It always takes me a minute to figure out which one I need to say.
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Post by ilikepink on Feb 4, 2016 16:21:20 GMT
Newark, NJ is more "nerk" - two syllables mushed together. But Newark, DE is New-ark.
When I was moving to Savannah, I ordered a mattress to be delivered when I arrived. I was moving to Whitemarsh island; pronouncing it white-marsh. The lovely southern woman from the mattress store said in the best southern voice "Honey, down here it's pronounced wit-marsh".
Alrighty then!
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Post by Grom Pea on Feb 4, 2016 18:40:33 GMT
I always think of your name in my head as "Zig" so I don't need to worry about either zee or zed Also WRONG! Oh no. What have I done by adopting initials here? I might have to change it to Zee. For some reason i see it as zombie girl, not sure if that's an old name or if i made that up :-)
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Post by just PEAchy on Feb 4, 2016 20:38:16 GMT
They were talking on the radio yesterday about a place in Georgia called Martinez and it is pronounced as "Mar-tin-ez", as in the name Martin. I am in So. Cal., so if I see that name I pronounce it "Mar-TI-nez" (emphasis on the the TI). I used to live near there and my kids went to school in Martinez. I had the hardest time getting used to saying it the "correct" way. My DD was friends with a girl whose last name was also Martinez, pronounced the other way. After Georgia, we moved to a small town in Indiana with strong German roots. I was always misprouncing names, some stayed with the Germanic prounciations, others were Americanized. Some families even had the same name, but pronounced it differently. One name that really had me scratching my head was Thewes, pronounced Tavis. We were close to Louisville, KY, too. The correct pronunciation is Lou-uh-ville, with the Lou-uh kind of running together, it's not Louie-Ville.
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Post by Zee on Feb 4, 2016 23:16:50 GMT
Also WRONG! Oh no. What have I done by adopting initials here? I might have to change it to Zee. For some reason i see it as zombie girl, not sure if that's an old name or if i made that up :-) Exactly, that was my name on 2peas (and elsewhere, pre-dating that) and when we moved here I thought it was time to remove the "grrl" being as how I'm in my 40s now and just go with the initials. I have a few internet friends who call me zee gee. I had no idea I'd be zag, zig, zug, zedgie, or anything other than zee gee. Plus I thought everyone knew I used to be zombie*grrl but I guess not!
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Post by gar on Feb 4, 2016 23:26:07 GMT
For some reason i see it as zombie girl, not sure if that's an old name or if i made that up :-) Exactly, that was my name on 2peas (and elsewhere, pre-dating that) and when we moved here I thought it was time to remove the "grrl" being as how I'm in my 40s now and just go with the initials. I have a few internet friends who call me zee gee. I had no idea I'd be zag, zig, zug, zedgie, or anything other than zee gee. Plus I thought everyone knew I used to be zombie*grrl but I guess not! I think I did know that but had forgotten. When I see the asterisk it says to me 'missing letter' so my brain inserts one
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Post by bc2ca on Feb 4, 2016 23:46:42 GMT
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 5, 2016 0:24:35 GMT
Are all of you saying my name as Zed Gee? That's NOT RIGHT! I always think of your name in my head as "Zig" so I don't need to worry about either zee or zed I read Zag.
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Post by mollycoddle on Feb 5, 2016 2:01:06 GMT
They were talking on the radio yesterday about a place in Georgia called Martinez and it is pronounced as "Mar-tin-ez", as in the name Martin. I am in So. Cal., so if I see that name I pronounce it "Mar-TI-nez" (emphasis on the the TI). You should hear how Texans mispronounce San Felipe and San Jacinto, among others. You would think with the Spanish speaking population we have here, it wouldn't be so bad. But we hear San FILL-up-pee for the street and there's a community college pronounced San Juh-sin-toe, commonly abbreviated as San Jack. How do you pronounce San Jacinto the right way?
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Post by hennybutton on Feb 5, 2016 3:12:41 GMT
You should hear how Texans mispronounce San Felipe and San Jacinto, among others. You would think with the Spanish speaking population we have here, it wouldn't be so bad. But we hear San FILL-up-pee for the street and there's a community college pronounced San Juh-sin-toe, commonly abbreviated as San Jack. How do you pronounce San Jacinto the right way? San Yah-seen-toe is the Spanish pronunciation. Here in SoCal, it's usually pronounced San Yah-sin-toe. Only newbies pronounce the J.
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Post by hennybutton on Feb 5, 2016 3:17:36 GMT
Speaking of Spanish names for people and places, California has some delightful weirdness. For example, you meet someone named "Martin" and it could be either Mar-tin or Mar-teen depending on the person's ethnicity.
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 5, 2016 3:27:05 GMT
Were you on RoDAYoh Drive, or RoDEEoh Lane? If I was going to a rodeo with cowboys I would say "ROH-dee-oh" but if I was driving along Rodeo Drive - apart from being super excited that I was in California!! - I would say ""ro-DAY-oh". Note the different syllabic emphasis as well as pronunciation of the second syllable.
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 5, 2016 4:16:05 GMT
I was just watching a scrapbook video and the lady pronounce ephemera as "eff amera" with two distinct syllables. I had to made sure I hadn't been pronouncing it incorrectly. It sound a bit like Ef you!
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Post by hollymolly on Feb 5, 2016 4:40:08 GMT
Also WRONG! Oh no. What have I done by adopting initials here? I might have to change it to Zee. I always reads it as "Zug" (train in German). Me too! Don't know why.
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Post by katlady on Feb 5, 2016 5:32:52 GMT
Were you on RoDAYoh Drive, or RoDEEoh Lane? There is a street in Los Angeles called Rodeo Rd. I always used to call it RoDAYoh Rd., just like how you pronounce the one in Beverly Hills. Apparently, it is RoDEEoh Rd.
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Post by Sue on Feb 5, 2016 7:10:03 GMT
Not a place but a word that I had never heard of before. I purchased an Australian brand of sunglasses called Quay. Someone asked me about them, and I pronounced them as "kway". I was then told that the proper pronunciation of that word is "key." Alrighty then! I was coming to post the same word. I'm in the process of renting a vacation place called Fisherman's Quay. Got schooled. J My grandmother's maiden name was Lackey.... pronounced LaQuay. Go figure!
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Post by leftturnonly on Feb 5, 2016 8:35:45 GMT
While we're at it, it's IlliNOY, not IlliNOISE! Dez plaines, IL De Moyn, IA The Midwest is great for mispronounced place names named after other, older places, such as KAY-ro (Cairo), MY-lan (Milan), etc etc etc etc etc. Terre Haute IN is much different than Terre Haute IL. We could do this for days, haha. If you ask someone in north Delaware where Newark is and pronounce it as New-erk ---- you'll get sent across the Delaware River into New Jersey. If you pronounce it as New-ark ---- you'll get sent down I-95 a piece. Too bad for the poor slob that mispronounces the place they want to go to.
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Post by leftturnonly on Feb 5, 2016 8:44:38 GMT
al-you-MIN-e-um is correct too! Nuh uh. ensues.....
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Post by leftturnonly on Feb 5, 2016 8:53:12 GMT
So you all go through those alphabet books with your children and come to the end and are all like "Zed is for Zebbra" My world has been rocked to its core. I actually knew about the zebbras, thanks to David Attenborough's fabulous narration of various nature documentaries, but ZED??? It is zed in Canada too. But we say zee bra. Half American. Half British.
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Post by leftturnonly on Feb 5, 2016 8:55:55 GMT
Are all of you saying my name as Zed Gee? That's NOT RIGHT! Not me. I see your name as Zombie Girl.
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Post by anonrefugee on Feb 5, 2016 10:49:15 GMT
I always reads it as "Zug" (train in German). Me too! Don't know why. I read it as Zag.
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 5, 2016 22:30:45 GMT
It is zed in Canada too. But we say zee bra. Half American. Half British. LOL!!
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Post by katyscrap on Feb 7, 2016 3:03:12 GMT
My co-worker thought Amityville Horror was pronounced Ah-meaty-vill
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