Mispronunciations by non-locals

[gsdx]

We have a river in Peterborough named 'Otonobee' and is pronounced 'oh-TAH-NAH-bee'. I've heard it pronounced 'ah-tah-NAH-bee' and 'oh-TAH-NAH-BAY'.

I've heard Monaghan Road pronounced 'MAH-NAH-haan' instead of 'MAH-nah-gun'.

Dalhousie Street has come out as 'doll- (or daal) HOW-zee' instead of 'daal-HOO-zee'.

Any mispronunciations by non-locals in your area?

 

[herenthere]

How About

OR E GONE

NO NO....

OR E GUN

 

[gsdx]

There's a village near here called Wadworth which is pronounced Wad Eth.

Now, I would have been guilty of mispronouncing that one.

 

[The_Aviator]

Theres a place in the UK (think the North of England) called Cambois.

You would expect it (I think) to be pronounced Cam-bwaa (as in french) but you actually (apparently) pronounce it Cam-ess!...Weird!

 

[PixelHerder]

One I love hearing people trying to pronounce are Tignabruach (TIN-A-BREW-ACH... << as in Loch - not ack! It's a Scottish thing, lol)

Usually the best I hear is THAI-NA-BOROUGH



Another is Milngavie (MILL-GUY)

Gotta laugh when I get asked how to get to MILL-IN-GAVEE... usually takes a second for the penny to drop


Also - love the way Americans in particular say EDIN-BURROW instead of Edinburgh (EDINBURRA)

 

[luminum]

Ypsilanti (Ip-seh-lan-tee)
Lahser (Lah-sir)
Mackinac (Mack-eh-naw)

 

[PixelHerder]

Oh dear I always pronounce it Edin Bra

Given the tits we have for politicians that's not so far from the mark herry

Sorry gsdx -

 

[NongreasySweatproof]

Now I live somewhere where all the placenames are more phonetic, but for me there used to be --
Lemminsta
Woosta
Walthaaaghm
Glossta

And I've never lived there, but what do you people from Saskatchewan think of people why pronounce Regina like "Rijeena" instead of rhyming with "Vagina." If I lived in a town that rhymed with "vagina," I'd never get over it, and I'd try to find ways to penetrate that word into every conversation

 

[slobone]

Also - love the way Americans in particular say EDIN-BURROW instead of Edinburgh (EDINBURRA)

Gosh, I've always said ED-in-burg...

 

[slobone]

Don't know if we've ever had any tourists educated enough to say Montichello instead of Montisello, or Mee-LAN instead of MEYE-l'n, or Muh-DRID instead of MA-drid (with the short a), or LEE-ma instead of LEYE-ma, etc. (not all of these are in Iowa). You do sometimes hear people pronounce the final s in Des Moines, but I think that's dying out.

 

[PhoenixRising]

Being in an area with a rather large Ojibway native population, here are a few places that tourists always mispronounce:

Sheguiandah (sheg-gwee-an-daa)
Zhibaahaasing (Zi-baa-sing, I think)
Wikwemikong (wick-wem-i-kong)

 

[Ginge]

A places nearby to where i live is Gnosall (no-sall) or Brewood (brew-ood)

 

[dvdmallett]

Well, everybody seems to get my hometown Napanee confused with Napean.
The one I'd really like to know though is a road we came across while driving to California. The sign said Zzyxx Road.

P.S. anyone have a copy of the pic of Ben Bowder and Michael Shanks naked together? If you do please post it.
Probably a fake but it would be so hot to see a movie of them together. (drool !!!!!)

 

[RationalLunacy]

Al-you-min-i-um.

 

[gsdx]

P.S. anyone have a copy of the pic of Ben Bowder and Michael Shanks naked together? If you do please post it.
Probably a fake but it would be so hot to see a movie of them together. (drool !!!!!)

Wow! Now that's a hijack I could never have imagined!! But. . . ohhhhhhh, can I ever imagine it!!!

Now, what was I going to say?

Oh, yeah. Mispronunciations.

It's amazing how many non-Canucks don't pronounce 'Canuck' correctly. (Hint: It rhymes with 'puck' and that other word, not with 'book' or 'spook'. And it certainly doesn't rhyme with 'puke'! )

 

[ibox_2000]

My Dad and I used to take his boat along the Otonabee every summer. Apparently I always pronounced it wrong.

I now live in Ottawa. There is a community south of here called North Gower. It's pronounced "Gore" (as in "Al Gore"). You can guess how those from away say it.

 

[Austin40acres]

I can understand some of the places that are mispronounced because of difficult spelling. What's not fair to tourists is to take a normal word and mispronounce it locally just for kicks.

For example: In Austin, there's Manor Rd. Anyone who speaks English would know how to pronounce it, except you'd be wrong. It's "May-nor".

And, I'm still trying to figure out how Bexhar County is pronounced "bear". There's an "x" there. Since when did English develop a "silent x"?

A4A

 

[dolphwasser]

I'm in a German / Pennsylvania Dutch section of PA. There are just too many places to list that are hard for non-locals to get on the first try.

 

[Lube]

I had a friend pronounce "West Nyack" as "west nuh-YACK".

(It's "west n-EYE-ack").

Speaking of "EYE", all the locals talk about them there "EYE-talians". (You know, Italians).

 

[herenthere]

I had a teacher say

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