Days Moin
Anon has an unexpected day
Submitted 3 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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stinerman@midwest.social 3 days ago
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 days ago
There’s a city (town) in Oklahoma called Miami. If you pronounce it as you would you’d be quickly and redneckedly corrected. It is pronounced “my am uh” as anyone with a shred of sophistication would already know.
(It’s actually a native word, but still, I like jokes. They hide the pain)
j4k3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Lafayette Georgia is “luh-FAY-et” and Madrid Alabama is “MAD-rid” because stupidity is standard practice where I’m from.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 days ago
There’s a city in California called Van Nuys (pronounced like van eyes) and I very often hear it pronounced as it looks spelled (Van Newies).
_stranger_@lemmy.world 3 days ago
my favorites from Texas:
Buda -> “byou-duh” (byou as in beautiful) but NEVER “BooDah”. Occasionally you’ll hear “buttah”, but I’m sure those people are trolling
Bourne: Bernie
Bexar: Bear (Should be beHar, as in Harm, just like Texas is actually TeJas like the Ha in Hans.
D’Hanis: DaHennies, like “da pennies”
Weirdly most of the German places names are pronounced correctly, probably because they were founded by Germans who produced their names correctly for long enough that it stuck.
stinerman@midwest.social 3 days ago
Ohio has:
Versailles (ver-sails) Bellefontaine (bell-fountain) Gallipolis (gal-uh-police) Russia (Roo-she)
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Anon sucks, I want to hear about this mf drywall
don@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Exactly what I was thinking: shut the fuck up anon, and let drywall dude speak.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 days ago
What a gyp