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Never judge a town’s name by the way it’s spelled

Sunday, 16 December 2018, 18:20 MJA Uncategorized 41

In the South, never judge a town name by the way it’s spelled. These town names in Georgia are no exception.

41 Comments on Never judge a town’s name by the way it’s spelled

  9. Puyallup
    Enumclaw
    Dosewallips
    Steilacoom
    Issaquah
    Skokomish
    Lilliwaup
    Snohomish
    Snoqualmie

    If you can pronounce all those correctly, you need to apply for a local TV news anchor job in the Soviet State.

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  12. I had an old room mate in college explain how to speak “southern.” Use a lot of long A’s – even where there should be no A at all – and stretch one syllable words into two where possible. “Tits” translates to “te-ats,” which is probably closer to how the word was originally spelled anyway.

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  15. Well I have worked in Hollandtown. Lived on the West side for a number of years…….. years ago….. seems like a lifetime.
    “Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell

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  22. You are correct, MJA!! You’re hired!

    Sorry, geoff the aardvark, I figured I was overloading. BTW, I like to pronounce “Issaquah” … “Is-a-squaw.” They don’t like it.

    But this has to be the winner: “Warshington.”

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  27. For some reason or another every time I hear of Padukah, Ky. my son in law’s hometown I think of Podunk. But from what I’m told Padukah is a nice place even though I’ve never been there. And then there’s Rosalia, Wa. which a friend of mine from Texas called Rosealleea and Asotin, Wa. which is commonly referred to as Ass o Tin and Anatone, Wa. which is basically the beginning of BFE. And of course there’s Athol, Id. which is self explanatory.

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  29. Aww, that is precious. Y’all think we don’t know how to pronounce our own town names down south… Actually: that is how we spot all y’all Yankees in a nooo yawk minute. Well, that, and the fact that y’all cain’t be bothered to hold the door for the next man, woman, or chiy-ull after you…
    Here in Virginia, are the proper pronunciations:
    “Rownoke,” not Roh-ah-noke
    “Nawfuhk,” not Nor-folk
    “BuuNahVihsta,” not Bweaa-Nu-Veesta (What, are y’all Mexicuhn?)
    “StaaanTun,” not Stawn-ton (What, are y’all Englush?)
    “CharLuttsVull,” not Shar-Lotts-Ville (What, are y’all stoopid?)
    “Yankee Territory,” not Northern-Virginia (What, are y’all traitors?)
    Just sayin. Without an accent. Y’all might could work on yours; it kinda gives you away down here…

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  30. I could never understand Massachusetts. Chatham, Dedham, Hingham are all pronounced -em. The letter H is silent.

    But Wareham and Framingham the H is pronounced.

    Fuckham. You decide about the H.

    And then there’s Woburn. Pronounced Woo, as in Woo Woo!

    And my last town name issue involves SEX. There’s Essex and Wessex and Sussex, meaning east, west, and south. But there is no Nosex. I guess nobody wanted to live there or the population died off.

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  37. Steve Brown (waaayyyy up above) was right about Utah:
    Tooele (too-il-le) and Juab (jew-ab).
    But he left out Hurricane (hur-i-can, not -cane).
    There may be a few others, but it’s late…….

  39. We have the same Milan in Ohio plus Lima. Then there’s Geauga like someone clearing their throat and the one no one knows how pronounce, Nimishillen. Their is no ‘O’ Canton and it’s Clumbus not Columbus.
    We we lived in NC Fayetteville was Fedvull.

    And don’t pronounce Beaufort, SC the same as Beaufort, NC

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