We Try to Pronounce Texas Town Names

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  • Опубліковано 12 січ 2019
  • In the South, never judge a town name by the way it's spelled. These town names in Texas are no exception.
    #itsasouthernthing
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  • @novaquartz5049
    @novaquartz5049 5 років тому +2275

    Problem is Texas land has been owned by the Germans, Spaniards, Natives, Mexico, and the French. Sooo many languages kinda make up our city names.
    Edit: Point is a lot of different cultures settled into Texas. We have a complicated history and even more complicated street/town/city names.

    • @stevelavergne2852
      @stevelavergne2852 5 років тому +91

      And they've all been mashed together to produce the odd pronunciations.

    • @karoleigharmstrong8568
      @karoleigharmstrong8568 5 років тому +9

      And Chez.

    • @captainjason1157
      @captainjason1157 5 років тому +95

      Germany never owned any part of Texas. We had a large influx of German immigration in the late 1800's. They mostly settled in and around hill country.

    • @bobina05
      @bobina05 5 років тому +35

      @@captainjason1157 Schlitterbahn!

    • @kennetth1389
      @kennetth1389 5 років тому +56

      Don’t forget the Czechs

  • @JusticeBackstrom
    @JusticeBackstrom 4 роки тому +1647

    As a Texan, I failed more of these than I'd like to admit.

    • @Motodoggo_
      @Motodoggo_ 4 роки тому +4

      Sadly me too

    • @JusticeBackstrom
      @JusticeBackstrom 4 роки тому +1

      @@Motodoggo_ Rest in Peace.

    • @thecatladytm7172
      @thecatladytm7172 4 роки тому +34

      Ngl, I'd never even heard of some of those places

    • @Motodoggo_
      @Motodoggo_ 4 роки тому +12

      @@thecatladytm7172 there are some weird ones too like I live not to far from a city called
      DIME BOX, TX

    • @JusticeBackstrom
      @JusticeBackstrom 4 роки тому +2

      @@thecatladytm7172 Same here.

  • @Captain_Pink
    @Captain_Pink 3 роки тому +604

    As a Texan, I started singing the second I saw Luckenbach. "Let's go to Lukenbach Teexass, Willie n Waylon and the booys.... This successful life we're livin got us feudin like the Hatfields and McCoys..."

    • @kamrynjackson1644
      @kamrynjackson1644 3 роки тому +31

      Thank the Lord I was not the only one 😂

    • @directorMASC
      @directorMASC 3 роки тому +14

      Yes this! I was singing it too!

    • @uts4448
      @uts4448 3 роки тому +7

      Yessss! That’s where I recognized it from. I was trying to remember where I heard it from.

    • @TexasLadyS
      @TexasLadyS 3 роки тому +6

      Me too!

    • @garrybowers9998
      @garrybowers9998 3 роки тому +4

      Yay, now I don't feel weird singing it in my head.

  • @masonjones4849
    @masonjones4849 2 роки тому +78

    "Pick a letter and don't pronounce it."
    Damn, she's a quick learner.

  • @jeremycotton7604
    @jeremycotton7604 5 років тому +2407

    Hey y'all who else lives in Texas like if you do

    • @ambernashay5662
      @ambernashay5662 5 років тому +33

      Dallas

    • @SheepdogSmokey
      @SheepdogSmokey 5 років тому +9

      Gruene Hall on a Friday night, beer in one hand, my lady on the dance "floor," great memories.

    • @mexicangem1677
      @mexicangem1677 5 років тому +23

      Houston

    • @SheepdogSmokey
      @SheepdogSmokey 5 років тому +4

      @@mexicangem1677 Ouch, the only city where traffic is worse than Dallas in morning rush hour.

    • @colewarnock935
      @colewarnock935 5 років тому +9

      Austin

  • @ameenahsf
    @ameenahsf 5 років тому +1887

    How did the San Antonio lady mess up Nacogdoches!? Its even the name of a regularly used street and exit on 410. You ain't never exited on nacogdoches lady!?!?! I'm side eyeing her something fierce right now

    • @bre124
      @bre124 5 років тому +72

      I know! I was so confused, she must be from the south side

    • @txaggievet
      @txaggievet 5 років тому +128

      How did she mess up Gruene ... its just north of San Antonio... no doubt she has been there

    • @iankelty7080
      @iankelty7080 5 років тому +77

      And not knowing Gruene which is down the street from New Braunfels

    • @Jprager
      @Jprager 5 років тому +28

      Miss Mena I was literally just about to comment that, we’ve got streets named after some of these towns 😂 and she still butchered them

    • @hellokittyangel211
      @hellokittyangel211 5 років тому +20

      My only guess is that it’s probably one of those things where she so used to hearing and not ever being asked to spell it that seeing it spelled out just kind of threw her and I’m saying this as some from a state that also has VERY weird place names.
      For example, even though I wasn’t born in the state I currently reside in, it has been home to my permanent address since about 3 weeks before my 1st birthday almost 30 years which means I felt I have mastered or at the very least learned the phonic and linguistic logic behind the naming process, so that I couldn’t be TOO tripped up when I discovered some place I’ve never heard of. Therefore, you can imagine my shock when I learned that these three different places in my state known as Reading, North Reading, and Readville are NOT all pronounced the same way even though logic would dictate all three these places would be pronounced the same way. However, only two out the three of them are and to make matters even more confusing the 2 places with the same pronunciation aren’t even done in the default way you would assume.

  • @faithy8756
    @faithy8756 3 роки тому +57

    “someone’s putting the wrong em-pha-sus on the wrong sylla-ble” i died

  • @silverwheelspatriot1764
    @silverwheelspatriot1764 3 роки тому +159

    Even Texans fight over how to pronounce a few cities. Born in Texas, reared in Texas, and still here.

    • @theroidragedtrex7908
      @theroidragedtrex7908 2 роки тому +1

      Which-it-aw, or Which-Ee-tuh?

    • @savathunthejudge914
      @savathunthejudge914 2 роки тому

      you should know us all by now...all of us are violent

    • @ChocolateMilk..
      @ChocolateMilk.. 2 роки тому +2

      Boerne is definitly pronounced wrong.

    • @STOCKHOLM07
      @STOCKHOLM07 2 роки тому +2

      Well this video gets quite a few very wrong.

    • @TheCraftyMagnolia
      @TheCraftyMagnolia Рік тому +1

      Yeah, like Mexia. People there call it Meh Hay er. LOL And try Teague on for size.

  • @tsteeleosuou
    @tsteeleosuou 5 років тому +447

    If you can't pronounce Luckenbach you never hung out with Waylon and Willie and the boys

    • @relayniedarcy
      @relayniedarcy 5 років тому +2

      Good times...

    • @hellopeople4264
      @hellopeople4264 5 років тому +2

      Forget pronunciation. They even spelled it wrong in the video.

    • @rivka954
      @rivka954 5 років тому +3

      Exactly!!! I knew how to pronounce it before I even moved here from the Arizona mountains 25 years ago...of course my daddy was born and raised in a little town outside Paris during the Depression so I grew up with biscuits and gravy, greens, chicken fried steak, chow chow, even vinegar pie, lol, so moving here was like coming home. Thank God for Texas!!!

    • @amymaliga1674
      @amymaliga1674 5 років тому

      Tom Steele 😂😂
      Exactly.

    • @sandycarvelli7870
      @sandycarvelli7870 4 роки тому

      That was my thought exactly

  • @LapinAngelique00
    @LapinAngelique00 5 років тому +162

    "We're Texans and we do what we want." That's it. That's the motto.

    • @t.thompson8985
      @t.thompson8985 5 років тому +1

      At all times.

    • @SheepdogSmokey
      @SheepdogSmokey 5 років тому +2

      That's the "official" motto, but "Don't F&&& with Texas" is the real one

    • @bgcofer
      @bgcofer 3 роки тому +2

      Ray Wiley Hubbard has a song- "We're From Texas. Screw you "

    • @brendabernstein286
      @brendabernstein286 2 роки тому

      Truth

  • @paulgarcia1147
    @paulgarcia1147 3 роки тому +84

    A lot of us Texans pronounce Palacios in different ways depending on where you are from in the state. I think it should be pronounced just like it sounds in Spanish.

    • @mojoschmee9320
      @mojoschmee9320 2 роки тому +2

      It should be pronounced the way it's pronounced by the folks who live there.

    • @ChevyBachelor
      @ChevyBachelor 2 роки тому +7

      51% Hispanic population, I agree…

    • @hellopeople4264
      @hellopeople4264 2 роки тому +4

      The pronunciation was heavily influenced by the Bohemian (German-Czech) population in the earlier days of the town.

    • @TehButterflyEffect
      @TehButterflyEffect Рік тому +2

      No. Everything should be pronounced in English. Mexico is the OTHER side of the border. 😊

    • @inigomontoya4109
      @inigomontoya4109 Рік тому +3

      To be fair a good chunk of our cities in this state are like that. Even the city natives pronounce many of the cities different. I've heard most of these cities they've listed pronounced many a different way even when i was in them

  • @acmart99
    @acmart99 3 роки тому +103

    As a waxahachie native, hearing them all mispronounce my hometown is so hilarious 😂

    • @LimegreenSnowstorm
      @LimegreenSnowstorm 3 роки тому +3

      Is that really how you say it?? I grew up in Texas and that’s not how I said it D: The Dallas peeps be sayin it wrong

    • @dej2183
      @dej2183 3 роки тому +4

      @@LimegreenSnowstorm either way more people say wox

    • @utexashorns0542
      @utexashorns0542 3 роки тому +4

      It’s annoying too. Lol, live there too

    • @corbenhopgood9202
      @corbenhopgood9202 3 роки тому +2

      Same here

    • @karolinebeckett6944
      @karolinebeckett6944 2 роки тому +2

      I used to drive to Waxahachie regularly. From Ennis lmao

  • @BOLANAREDE321
    @BOLANAREDE321 5 років тому +858

    Supercalifragilisticexpi Nacogdoches...

    • @claddagh143
      @claddagh143 5 років тому +7

      😂😂😂

    • @Devin3Anthologie
      @Devin3Anthologie 5 років тому +5

      Exactly! Did we go to the same school or something because I'm pert near positive we put those two together where I went to school 😂😂👏🏾

    • @mrs.hammertime180
      @mrs.hammertime180 5 років тому +4

      Thoroughly unappreciated comment. :)

    • @lifeisgoodinthesouth210
      @lifeisgoodinthesouth210 5 років тому +1

      Totally hilarious!! I think we must have grown up in the same town! 😂

    • @BOLANAREDE321
      @BOLANAREDE321 5 років тому

      @Grey Cactus what are you talking about?

  • @xandyjay4891
    @xandyjay4891 5 років тому +905

    The “Texan” that didn’t know Nacogdoches and needs to stop claiming us 🤨.

    • @BuzzDoesDisney
      @BuzzDoesDisney 5 років тому +10

      Xandy Jay I lived in OKC for six years and I knew that one right away!

    • @xandyjay4891
      @xandyjay4891 5 років тому +3

      Cynthia Baker Bexar would have been perfect!! Waco is more we’ll know now because of the Gaines’s though. It’s not as funny to see people try anymore LOL!

    • @BrokenWingsMusic
      @BrokenWingsMusic 5 років тому +16

      Lol I'm from Nacogdoches and I dont see how people cant say it 😂

    • @t.thompson8985
      @t.thompson8985 5 років тому +19

      She gotta give up her Texan card.

    • @Lauren.Chapman
      @Lauren.Chapman 5 років тому

      rt

  • @davidphares8618
    @davidphares8618 3 роки тому +22

    Waylon taught us how to say Luckenbach :-)

    • @BigDogCountry
      @BigDogCountry 2 роки тому

      Waylon taught us how _HE_ says Luckenbach.

    • @Gablesman888
      @Gablesman888 23 дні тому

      @@BigDogCountry So did Willie.

  • @sarahborders2348
    @sarahborders2348 2 роки тому +10

    I've lived in DFW, Corpus Christi, Houston and Austin, so I got all of these correct! The rule seems to be that when you move to a new town in Texas, you've got some pronunciations to learn.

  • @Ravenkm
    @Ravenkm 5 років тому +680

    "We're Texans, and we do what we want." That we do XD

    • @BigAl2-u7e
      @BigAl2-u7e 4 роки тому +7

      Apart from seceding from the Union successfully.

    • @OGWeezy
      @OGWeezy 4 роки тому +3

      Charlie Yang lasted longer than my parents marriage

    • @fememoboy7601
      @fememoboy7601 4 роки тому

      Explore more with Chris OOF THAT KID ON XBOX WAS RIGHT THEN

    • @nicholecharo6480
      @nicholecharo6480 3 роки тому +2

      WhishiWhooshi technically we legally still have the right to secede if we want to, whereas other states dont

    • @arthurragan1332
      @arthurragan1332 3 роки тому +1

      Except smoke pot lol

  • @tejaswoman
    @tejaswoman 4 роки тому +850

    Friend's mom was a Mexia native and told us this joke:
    Two men are driving into town, and as they pass the sign, they begin arguing over how the town's name is pronounced. They're hungry, so they decide to go settle the argument by asking the server at the drive-thru. After pulling up and placing their order, the driver asks the server, "Could you settle an argument for me and my friend about how this place is pronounced? Say it slowly, please."
    Young woman looks at them, bumfuzzled, then says patiently, "Daaaaaaairyyyy Queeeeeeeen."

    • @charlottehall7785
      @charlottehall7785 4 роки тому +60

      Lol used to work at the dairy Queen in groesbeck about 12 minutes away from mexia.
      I can guarantee this happens more than you think.

    • @southsportsdude
      @southsportsdude 4 роки тому +15

      I’ve seen this joke somewhere before but it was Louisiana and it was Burger King

    • @mongolordofdarkness
      @mongolordofdarkness 4 роки тому +10

      I know it slightly different. Greyhound bus. 3 guys. 1 says Mex-ia. 1 says Mah-Hay-ah. 1 says Mah-hare.

    • @tejaswoman
      @tejaswoman 4 роки тому +1

      @@charlottehall7785 - you've made me wish I knew where and if Phyllis Boone is living so I could tell her!

    • @thecatladytm7172
      @thecatladytm7172 4 роки тому +4

      That is hilarious

  • @docpipkin8288
    @docpipkin8288 2 роки тому +6

    As a Texan, I'm sad to say that I really underestimated how many there would be. The only ones I got right were Nacogdoches, Luckenbach, and Dumas.

  • @ellynorcross3318
    @ellynorcross3318 3 роки тому +2

    Native Texan born and raised and I knew all of these. The town of Nacogdoches even has a song you are taught in elementary school on how to spell it. We gotta lot of state pride!

  • @marim5882
    @marim5882 5 років тому +897

    I’m a Texan an I laughed so hard at the Nacodogdches one😂 it’s a famous city in Texas.

    • @kellylewis6060
      @kellylewis6060 5 років тому +16

      I was waitin' for it. I knew they made this video just got it. 😂😂😂

    • @andrewbert5402
      @andrewbert5402 5 років тому +2

      I learned about that town a few months back in history class. I never could pronounce it right

    • @mydork13714
      @mydork13714 5 років тому +16

      NACANOWHERE

    • @joshuanicholas6178
      @joshuanicholas6178 5 років тому +6

      Nac is also acceptable

    • @Chase0370
      @Chase0370 5 років тому +9

      I call it Nac lol live 40 minutes away. Oldest town in Texas

  • @numbernien
    @numbernien 4 роки тому +382

    Im suprised Pflugerville wasn't on this list.

    • @benney52
      @benney52 3 роки тому +20

      Me too
      I'm surprised Manor is on it

    • @kmvstudios9072
      @kmvstudios9072 3 роки тому +6

      I’m gonna guess (FLOO-jurr-vill)

    • @numbernien
      @numbernien 3 роки тому +25

      @@kmvstudios9072 nope! FLOO-gerr-vill

    • @kmvstudios9072
      @kmvstudios9072 3 роки тому +7

      @@numbernien Well, I was at least close. Thanks for the knowledge :)

    • @numbernien
      @numbernien 3 роки тому +2

      @@kmvstudios9072 You're Welcome!

  • @sasquach3.090
    @sasquach3.090 3 роки тому +4

    New Braunfels: “it’s new right is the ‘N’ silent?”
    Good stuff! 😂 hilarious!

  • @codyhageman3036
    @codyhageman3036 3 роки тому +15

    Don’t feel bad, I’m Texan and still got most of these wrong😂

  • @probably_singing
    @probably_singing 4 роки тому +191

    "We're from Texas, we do what we want." So true.

    • @sparkleandfriends8127
      @sparkleandfriends8127 3 роки тому +2

      Texas greatness

    • @walkingcorpse1224
      @walkingcorpse1224 2 роки тому

      Idk, are we talking about the actual state or the people? Cus the people are highly enforced by Texas law and arrest too many people for stupid petty crimes. It's #3 I believe on the list.

    • @savathunthejudge914
      @savathunthejudge914 2 роки тому

      @@_Meng_Lan your kind isn't welcome here

    • @Tylerfreemanmusic
      @Tylerfreemanmusic 2 роки тому

      @@savathunthejudge914 it's true tho, I love Texas but it's government doesn't give a shit about us

    • @savathunthejudge914
      @savathunthejudge914 2 роки тому

      @@Tylerfreemanmusic our government does. we've drawn to conclusions. it's the senator and his people who don't care. our governor has done all he could. the best he can do now is wait til next governor election

  • @rach1042
    @rach1042 5 років тому +148

    They be sounding like google maps trying pronounce our street names😂

  • @randomcdude4430
    @randomcdude4430 2 роки тому +2

    I went to Stephen F Austin which is not in Austin, but Nacogdoches. Our rival school was across the state line in Louisiana (pronounced LoozyAnna) in a town called Natchitoches (pronounced Nack-uh-dish). Then I graduated college and moved out of state and finally learned that phonics are a thing. Who knew that the letters of the alphabet actually corresponded to specific sounds?

  • @theroidragedtrex7908
    @theroidragedtrex7908 2 роки тому +4

    I was off a few but I got most of em. The trick is applying a germanic twist to an already southern-esque twang. Whilst including a brush of Spanish, a sprig of Native American, and 1 drop of French.

  • @MegaTexan2010
    @MegaTexan2010 5 років тому +582

    How does the woman who claims to be from San Antonio get Nacogdoches wrong? We learned about it in Texas history as the oldest town in Texas.

    • @LifeinLithuania
      @LifeinLithuania 5 років тому +21

      And Gruene! She must not get out much lol

    • @totto79121
      @totto79121 5 років тому +12

      Maybe she's a transplant.

    • @DS-rt1ed
      @DS-rt1ed 5 років тому +7

      THANK YOU! I thought the same thing...I think she's an impostor.

    • @danielloftin6057
      @danielloftin6057 5 років тому +21

      And Greune. That's like a whole 2 feet from San Antonio

    • @grantnelson2836
      @grantnelson2836 5 років тому +17

      True and we have a road called nacogdoches

  • @patchoulicolt7093
    @patchoulicolt7093 5 років тому +1202

    I'm a Texan, and I know every single one of these, and have been to many.

  • @stevef68
    @stevef68 3 роки тому +8

    Should have had them guess how to pronounce Bexar while they were at it.

    • @johnkemker7784
      @johnkemker7784 3 роки тому

      "Bay Har"
      Simple.

    • @colormedubious4747
      @colormedubious4747 3 роки тому +2

      @@johnkemker7784 Not so simple. Most people say it so fast that it sounds like "bear."

  • @hotandsoursoup2664
    @hotandsoursoup2664 3 роки тому +2

    Iraan- combo of the couple's name who founded the town

  • @andriki88
    @andriki88 5 років тому +452

    I'm from Texas and appreantly I've been saying the names of these towns wrong.

    • @delightfuldixie3863
      @delightfuldixie3863 5 років тому +12

      Agreed! Where ya from? I grew up in Corpus Christi

    • @mayajade9428
      @mayajade9428 5 років тому +1

      andriki88 yeah me too but I’m from the capital

    • @mayajade9428
      @mayajade9428 5 років тому +3

      Delightful Dixie I visit there all the time. I’m from Austin

    • @rz5401
      @rz5401 5 років тому +8

      Nah we haven't been pronouncing them wrong others that aren't from Texas can't pronounce these places the way we pronounce them. I'm from Los Fresnos and live in West Texas so my scale of this state and it's towns is vast

    • @connorlambert8286
      @connorlambert8286 5 років тому

      Same

  • @ColeM40
    @ColeM40 5 років тому +166

    As a Texan, I loved when I could pronounce about 75% of these, but hated that I couldn't the other 25%. anyone else?

  • @Katfancy40
    @Katfancy40 3 роки тому +1

    There are a lot of German and Czech town's in TX. I'm from Corpus Christi Texas and raised in the Violet area that my Czech and German ancestors helped build. We love our crazy names!

  • @berryb745
    @berryb745 Рік тому +1

    Kinda weird, first time I’ve actually heard anyone not within 100 miles of Iraan actually ever say it correctly. Never thought it would be announced on YT. Good job for the people who made this list.

  • @user-fr6qn9xl9e
    @user-fr6qn9xl9e 5 років тому +461

    You forgot What-a-burger AKA Water-burger.

    • @akrobeau
      @akrobeau 5 років тому +5

      XDDD

    • @perfidiousprophet
      @perfidiousprophet 5 років тому +9

      THIS IS TRUE

    • @iviebrooks7768
      @iviebrooks7768 5 років тому +5

      accurate

    • @abbee1385
      @abbee1385 5 років тому +25

      I was SHOOK when I learned it was What-a-burger at the age of like, ten.

    • @lesliet.538
      @lesliet.538 5 років тому +3

      I’m from OK and I say that sometimes 😂

  • @kandianzinga
    @kandianzinga 4 роки тому +468

    She’s from San Antonio and didn’t get Gruene or Nacogdoches 🤔

    • @OutlawCaliber13
      @OutlawCaliber13 3 роки тому +13

      That was what I thought. lol

    • @careyward8404
      @careyward8404 3 роки тому +10

      Yep, that's was my first thought.

    • @andymontetaco6730
      @andymontetaco6730 3 роки тому +17

      She’s a fake.

    • @shaydy1
      @shaydy1 3 роки тому +12

      Same here. I admit I hadn’t heard of some, but those two are fairly well known....

    • @GFHO
      @GFHO 3 роки тому +4

      I also found that odd!

  • @HP_HairbyPaige
    @HP_HairbyPaige 3 роки тому +1

    “This makes me want a corn dog” 😂😂

  • @Suzukibob69
    @Suzukibob69 3 роки тому +1

    As soon as luckenbach came on I heard Waylon Jennings in my head lmao.

  • @LoriLikeBAMM18
    @LoriLikeBAMM18 5 років тому +403

    The one from San Antonio needs her Texan card revoked. Palestine Texan right here born and raised.

    • @Messi-me2zy
      @Messi-me2zy 5 років тому +5

      And she has no excuse cuz I live in San Antonio originally from lufkin TX and can pronounce all of them

    • @DS-rt1ed
      @DS-rt1ed 5 років тому +17

      IKR? How's she get Nacogdoches wrong? The oldest town in Texas...it's kinda a big deal. :)

    • @Pecan3.14
      @Pecan3.14 5 років тому +15

      To be fair if you're a Texan you can pronounce these any way you want until someone correct you. You have that much freedom here.

    • @mochabby93
      @mochabby93 5 років тому +3

      Lauren Newsom girl im saying!! Im from san antonio and im like ummm really lol

    • @aroses4416
      @aroses4416 5 років тому +3

      My family is from Palestine

  • @1987FX16
    @1987FX16 4 роки тому +88

    Gun Barrel, TX is the most Texas sounding town i've been through.

    • @TwistedOnyx369
      @TwistedOnyx369 4 роки тому +20

      But.... what about "Cut and Shoot?"

    • @lestermount3287
      @lestermount3287 3 роки тому +1

      @The Creole Empire when talking about strange names my favorite is New Dime Box.

    • @mr.nonentity3906
      @mr.nonentity3906 2 роки тому +1

      @@TwistedOnyx369 I was about to say lol, right off to the side of Conroe

    • @nicholasbrown1978
      @nicholasbrown1978 2 роки тому +1

      Ever heard of Cut N Shoot Texas?

    • @bigtimfish01
      @bigtimfish01 2 роки тому

      Yep.... Cut and shoot. Best name ever

  • @Raidersmomma2489
    @Raidersmomma2489 3 роки тому

    Man y'all are funny I was rollin on the floor the whole time but some of y'all did pretty good not gonna lie

  • @jjohnston326
    @jjohnston326 3 роки тому

    The Texas girl summed it up perfectly at the end, we're from Texas, we do what we want.

  • @feliciachambers8559
    @feliciachambers8559 5 років тому +140

    Texan here. I don't know how you can mispronounce nacogdoches. 😂

    • @yousephkarouni9540
      @yousephkarouni9540 5 років тому +1

      Houstonian and I got that one - Boerne and Palacios got me

    • @crispycheerios453
      @crispycheerios453 5 років тому +1

      Louisiana place spelled the same way but pronounce Na-Co-Dish

    • @africanmaan
      @africanmaan 5 років тому

      I've never actually read the name until this video

    • @theresalynn7575
      @theresalynn7575 5 років тому

      Louisianian here and same😂 it’s Na-Co-Dish

    • @genesisdynamics9
      @genesisdynamics9 5 років тому

      Damn ijut ferner

  • @kmbrooks96
    @kmbrooks96 5 років тому +510

    The blonde chic needs to hand back her Texas card. 🤦🏻‍♀️

    • @rockysquid1094
      @rockysquid1094 5 років тому +3

      Very much yes

    • @bm-r1135
      @bm-r1135 5 років тому +1

      Agreed!!

    • @cynninyt8094
      @cynninyt8094 4 роки тому +17

      I am born and raised here and I have never even heard of it. Leave her the f*** alone.

    • @johnMorganBrewer
      @johnMorganBrewer 4 роки тому +18

      Dragon Night you’ve never heard of Nacogdoches or Luckenbach??? Are you sure you’re from Texas?

    • @cynninyt8094
      @cynninyt8094 4 роки тому +3

      @@johnMorganBrewer yes I am. Believe me. I am from Austin and currently live in concan.

  • @stef1lee
    @stef1lee 3 роки тому +2

    I sure love my great beautiful state of Texas. We have so many great cultures that have settled here and have been a main staple to our lives. I celebrate everything because I was born and raised on the island and got to celebrate with all my different friends. That's one thing that is special about Galveston, you can eat everything from Pozole and Pupusas to Speitzel to kolaches. Have your friends from Jamaica, Trinidad, Mexico, El Salvador, Africa, the Holy land, and your hillbilly Joe's all in one room! I love it!

  • @04angelbydeath
    @04angelbydeath Рік тому

    "the trick is pick a letter and dont pronounce it" had my dead lmao

  • @ChlyDoris
    @ChlyDoris 4 роки тому +386

    The funny thing is Gruene->Grüne in german, what actually means green

    • @JJR93
      @JJR93 4 роки тому +17

      Boerne is named for Ludwig Börne and was probably originally pronounced the German way but people got tired of explaining the correct pronunciation to their Anglo neighbors and just said "y'all know what? We're from 'Bernie'....just call it 'Bernie' and let's go get a beer."

    • @unicethey-them6014
      @unicethey-them6014 4 роки тому +17

      Speaking German is surprisingly helpful with these names

    • @RandomnessGirl309
      @RandomnessGirl309 4 роки тому +16

      Yeah a lot germans migrated here. That's how we got the name for the water park Schlitterbahn

    • @RandomnessGirl309
      @RandomnessGirl309 4 роки тому

      @Pope Mcgrope ?????????

    • @RandomnessGirl309
      @RandomnessGirl309 4 роки тому

      @Pope Mcgrope oh I've never been to central texas

  • @jack-5699
    @jack-5699 5 років тому +66

    I'm a Texan and recognize some of these cities/towns, and Nacogdoches is infamous for people who grew up in Texas and learned about the Texan revolution when we seperated from Mexico.

    • @howardbaxter2514
      @howardbaxter2514 3 роки тому +2

      I just remember it as the city with a similar name to another city in Louisiana that is ironically on the same latitude.

    • @eyes_espresso4803
      @eyes_espresso4803 2 роки тому

      And the university is named for the most famous military leader out of that war! Stephen F. Austin. We have a statue fountain of him on campus, we lovingly call him Surfin' Steve.

    • @IzzyKawaiichi
      @IzzyKawaiichi 2 роки тому +1

      @@eyes_espresso4803 You say "most famous," but did he get the tallest standing statue of an American hero on I-45? Nope.

  • @060in3seconds
    @060in3seconds 3 роки тому

    I’m living in South Carolina now but I’m deeply rooted in Texas. When I interviewed for a job I was asked are you friendly? I said “friendly? I’m from Texas!”

  • @bayleenot_bailey
    @bayleenot_bailey 3 роки тому +4

    Matt never fails to make me laugh

  • @rob20760
    @rob20760 5 років тому +118

    It depends on who your asking because if I said Palacios or Refugio that way I'd get hit on the head by every Tejano in my family.

    • @thejokerjoker508
      @thejokerjoker508 5 років тому +13

      Roberto Rodriguez right???!!!! It should just be the spanish way

    • @dogez1937
      @dogez1937 5 років тому +16

      Lol yea. I'm from the south part of Texas so I naturally lean to the more Hispanic/Mexican way of pronunciation 💁‍♂️

    • @rheamorales1329
      @rheamorales1329 5 років тому +5

      Refugio has two pronunciations, it just depends who your talking with. Kinda like guacamole, do you guac it or walk it?

    • @karenmalay97
      @karenmalay97 5 років тому +15

      I’ve never ever ever heard REFUGIO pronounced that way. (Native Texan here. )

    • @hellopeople4264
      @hellopeople4264 5 років тому +3

      Ever watch the movie “We Were Soldiers”? The reporter got it right.

  • @collegebro85
    @collegebro85 5 років тому +559

    As a Texan, I got almost all of these wrong because we all say them different depending on our regional accent (DFW represent!)
    My personal faves, although not cities, are Erath county and Schlitterbahn

    • @Frankel-Grafix
      @Frankel-Grafix 5 років тому +1

      Same

    • @LifeinLithuania
      @LifeinLithuania 5 років тому +6

      Which ones do you pronounce differently? 🤔 I'm from DFW and I say all these the "correct" way...

    • @collegebro85
      @collegebro85 5 років тому +5

      Elise Gray Waxahachie = Way-xahachie
      Boerne = Burn
      Nacadoches = Nacado-cheese
      Also pronounce Weatherford as Witherfurr’d and Austin as Awe-stun
      I do have a slight Texhoma accent though, which might add to it

    • @lynnenriquez1909
      @lynnenriquez1909 5 років тому +5

      @@LifeinLithuania I just moved to Texas (DFW!!) from CA & besides y'alls crazy ass highway system , I went to San Antonio to visit family in Bexar (Bear, yes Bear not BeXar) county! Give me time and I will be Texan! Bless your hearts!!

    • @mikefelty2625
      @mikefelty2625 5 років тому +11

      Fellow DFW resident, born and raised. I got a bunch wrong, but I knew when I clicked on the video that not only would Waxahachie be in here, but people would mess it up. 😁

  • @williammetz7500
    @williammetz7500 3 роки тому +1

    I’m yanking the southern card of anyone who couldn’t pronounce Luckenbach. If you’ve never heard a Waylon Jennings song, you’re not southern.

  • @TommyElijahCabelloReal
    @TommyElijahCabelloReal 4 роки тому +2

    My aunt lives in Boerne!

  • @kat2556
    @kat2556 5 років тому +318

    Thank you for apologizing for that. The people of Texas appreciate that.

  • @RangerHouston
    @RangerHouston 5 років тому +361

    Some of these "official" pronunciations are wrong lol
    *From South Texas

    • @JP2GiannaT
      @JP2GiannaT 5 років тому +84

      Refugio, right? That one bothered me too.

    • @Rebeca-jr7rz
      @Rebeca-jr7rz 5 років тому +6

      @@JP2GiannaT yup

    • @mandymoore82
      @mandymoore82 5 років тому +6

      I thought the same thing. I'm originally from north Texas and Oklahoma. Moved to San Antonio four years ago.

    • @spencermcbeth6624
      @spencermcbeth6624 5 років тому

      JP2GiannaT it is pronounced refurio

    • @Johnny-mu9bs
      @Johnny-mu9bs 5 років тому +29

      @@spencermcbeth6624 It is a spanish word. It is also used as a name of Mexican women. We know how to pronounce it correctly and it is not "Refurio". You guys put that extra "r" in there because you cannot pronounce the "g". It is Re-Foo-he-oh

  • @snattler
    @snattler 2 роки тому +2

    Glad they put Iraan in there. Cool little town with some rumors of some kind of secret underground base. Also the adopted hometown of the cartoonist who drew Alley Oop, VT Hamlin.
    Named after Ira and Ann Yates.

  • @jennhoff03
    @jennhoff03 3 роки тому +2

    I have a bunch of ancestors from Texas with the last name Kuykendall. It wasn't till moving to Texas that I learned it's pronounced "Kurr-ken-doll." You know, with an R. ....Obviously.

    • @tcjohnson3437
      @tcjohnson3437 3 роки тому

      Roads named after it here in central Texas. Kuykendall Road and Kuykendall Mountain Road.

  • @maniacmagge2568
    @maniacmagge2568 5 років тому +184

    Now I'm not mad because many people don't understand that Texas has a lot of German towns, and you have to say it in a mixed German and southern accent

    • @theroadtocosplayandcomicco5840
      @theroadtocosplayandcomicco5840 5 років тому +1

      Great im part German what else am I

    • @miguelhernandez5634
      @miguelhernandez5634 5 років тому +6

      Maniac Magge yeah my hometown is called Rosenberg and it means rosy hills or something like that in German but it’s a last name

    • @OKay-lu8jq
      @OKay-lu8jq 4 роки тому

      @@miguelhernandez5634 Rose Mountain, so yep!

    • @madysonroberts1608
      @madysonroberts1608 4 роки тому

      Miguel Hernandez I live in Rosenberg too 😆😆

    • @ernestsmith3581
      @ernestsmith3581 3 роки тому

      @@OKay-lu8jq must refer to the high bank of the Brazos - hills are hard to find there. :-)

  • @lovesunshinegirl7681
    @lovesunshinegirl7681 5 років тому +276

    TEXAS REPRESENT!🤘🏻❤️🙏🏻🙌🏻🙋🏼‍♀️

  • @katherinetyrrell8810
    @katherinetyrrell8810 2 роки тому

    The best part,"We are Texans and we do what we want". Cracked me up! LOL

  • @HappyTX20
    @HappyTX20 Місяць тому

    My momma was born in San Antonio and my Dad in Brady and all our family and everyone I know say San Antone.
    You can tell the generations have changed here!

  • @TheOfficialKarlaXC14
    @TheOfficialKarlaXC14 5 років тому +287

    GIRL IF YOUR FROM SAN ANTONIO HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW GRUENE???? Literally 40 mins away from Downtown

    • @tgwife1964
      @tgwife1964 4 роки тому +5

      Or Boerne for that matter

    • @audreydavidson9517
      @audreydavidson9517 4 роки тому +1

      Thank you!!! That's what I was saying!!

    • @Shayranae
      @Shayranae 4 роки тому +8

      Idk how she didn’t get Nacogdoches.

    • @Valeirra
      @Valeirra 4 роки тому +4

      HONESTLY!!! i went to school in san marcos and worked in new braunfels and took the gruene exit ALL the time. it's literally so close to san antonio, i was shocked when she had no clue

    • @TheDivinian
      @TheDivinian 4 роки тому +1

      JUST SPELL IT CORRECTLY

  • @charlesdjones1
    @charlesdjones1 4 роки тому +29

    If you like George Strait you already know half these.

  • @emilytrahan3170
    @emilytrahan3170 2 роки тому +1

    Haven’t y’all ever heard of the song “ let’s go to luckenbach Texas with Waylon and willie and the boys…” ???
    I was born in Nacogdoches.
    Y’all should’ve tried to pronounce my town of Colmesneil Tx! 😜

  • @profoundgenius9726
    @profoundgenius9726 3 роки тому +2

    I’ve lived in Texas for the last 6 years and I still pronounce Borene as “Bourney”.

  • @jordan.newsom
    @jordan.newsom 5 років тому +74

    Born and raised in Nacogdoches! If you're ever in town, corndogs are on me!

    • @Messi-me2zy
      @Messi-me2zy 5 років тому +1

      Jordan Newsom are they from corn dog 7 in the lufkin mall

    • @Messi-me2zy
      @Messi-me2zy 5 років тому +1

      Or we could go to lufkin for some rays on me

    • @jordan.newsom
      @jordan.newsom 5 років тому

      @@Messi-me2zy Ray's is pretty darn good! :)

    • @folkloricogeek1
      @folkloricogeek1 5 років тому

      I want to go 😍😍😍😍

    • @imastatistic8347
      @imastatistic8347 5 років тому

      Nah fam I want some Jaliscience

  • @blackhatguy3263
    @blackhatguy3263 4 роки тому +55

    I’m from Iraan Ira was the rancher who founded the town and An was his wife

    • @ralfie8801
      @ralfie8801 4 роки тому +7

      Fighting Willock
      Absolutely! I'm glad you put this out there for the world to see where the name came from.

    • @spitfire57whaley35
      @spitfire57whaley35 4 роки тому +1

      Cool

    • @g.holland4862
      @g.holland4862 3 роки тому +1

      Fighting Willock I would have went with Ira-An. Just saying.

    • @lostinsauce4515
      @lostinsauce4515 3 роки тому +2

      Oh that's makes sense. Funny I'm Texan and didn't know

    • @IdratherbeinHobbiton
      @IdratherbeinHobbiton 3 роки тому

      "the more you knooow!" 🌠

  • @pikachuforlife6465
    @pikachuforlife6465 3 роки тому +1

    I’ve been living in Texas since 2015 and watching this is so funny 😂😂

  • @khagemann7462
    @khagemann7462 2 роки тому

    Haha loved watching them trying to pronounce waxachie I live there!

  • @stefchanel1723
    @stefchanel1723 5 років тому +72

    All these Southerners, and not a one of them recognized the name of a Waylon and Willie song when it was right in front of them!
    "Let's go to LUKE-en-bock, Texas!" With Waylon and Willie, and the boys....

    • @SD40Fan_Jason
      @SD40Fan_Jason 5 років тому +7

      Thank you! Maybe it's time we get back to the basics of love!

    • @kipchak5694
      @kipchak5694 4 роки тому +2

      Like the Hatfield's and McCoy's

  • @ericvantassell6809
    @ericvantassell6809 5 років тому +112

    The spirit of Waylon Jennings damns all those who mispronounced Luckenbach to perpetual Dumas-ery

    • @YoureRightAndrea
      @YoureRightAndrea 5 років тому

      Lol I'm a Texan born and raised but the only reason I knew how to say Luckenbach is cuz I speak German pretty good.

    • @zachdaniel6285
      @zachdaniel6285 5 років тому

      HELL YEAH!

    • @DS-rt1ed
      @DS-rt1ed 5 років тому +7

      Yeah, that one shocked me...I assumed everyone knew how to pronounce Luckenbach

    • @007Waffleman
      @007Waffleman 5 років тому +3

      That song is what went through my mind right when I saw it

  • @Delicate_Disaster
    @Delicate_Disaster 2 роки тому

    "You know what this word doesn't have? A G. Where should it go? Just throw it in there somewhere. Let's throw a G in there but not be able to hear it." 🤣

  • @gwynethrachaelcooper1957
    @gwynethrachaelcooper1957 2 роки тому

    You know it's going to be a good video when someone apologies at the beginning.

  • @djinnko
    @djinnko 4 роки тому +56

    0:06 The older folks in my family called it "San Antone."

    • @KoopaCoop0
      @KoopaCoop0 4 роки тому +1

      jinko that’s what it was originally named

    • @maggie2sticks717
      @maggie2sticks717 3 роки тому +1

      Kinda run together like "San-tone"

    • @ladyi7609
      @ladyi7609 3 роки тому +1

      The older folks in your family are looking for a stabbing. Also, that is NOT what it was originally named, Koopa Coop you fucking walnut.

    • @timebleeder2814
      @timebleeder2814 3 роки тому +3

      I'm in my 30s, born and raised in Texas. My family has live here since the late 1800s and, I call it San Antone. It's a very common and acceptable abbreviation.

  • @TiryaC
    @TiryaC 5 років тому +69

    Should've thrown "Italy", Bexar", and "Seguin" in there. ;)

    • @defenderguv8174
      @defenderguv8174 5 років тому

      TiryaC but Italy is just Italy

    • @Steadfast_Steady_Strong
      @Steadfast_Steady_Strong 5 років тому +4

      @@defenderguv8174 IT-lee is what I was told when I first moved just north of the town. :)

    • @joeymoey23
      @joeymoey23 5 років тому +4

      S Brooks it's definitely It-Lee

    • @alittlefallofrainn
      @alittlefallofrainn 5 років тому +1

      Isn't Seguin just said the way its spelt? I'm not far from there and we have some schools near by with that name. Just "Seh-geen"

    • @spookywillow
      @spookywillow 5 років тому +4

      throw in buda and see how many say “Buddha”

  • @youssefahmed7472
    @youssefahmed7472 3 роки тому +1

    Hello to my Texan friends from Maynardville Tennessee

  • @redrooster1908
    @redrooster1908 2 роки тому +1

    Super fun game! In Wisconsin, we had this game for Super Bowl in Texas as football fans there tried to pronounce places WI. LOL

  • @Clippz
    @Clippz 5 років тому +32

    The white bald guy made this video. "I saw my ex-wife and IRAAN" "Dumas(s)." Can we be friends bro?

  • @evanyount9173
    @evanyount9173 5 років тому +248

    Somebody revoke the Texan's Texas card... Nacogdoches is literally the oldest town in Texas the birthplace of Texas and how can you not know that one?
    How can you listen to country music and not know Luckenbach
    Where's Bexar?
    Also I'm Texan and didn't know several of these

    • @genesisdynamics9
      @genesisdynamics9 5 років тому +7

      Its just plain old Nac

    • @AEAADCAWAE
      @AEAADCAWAE 5 років тому +8

      Evan Yount actually Washington-on-the-Brazos is the birthplace of Texas because that’s where Texas Declaration of Independence was signed

    • @FunnyPrankLaughs
      @FunnyPrankLaughs 5 років тому +8

      Fellow Texan here! Everything you said was correct! I didn’t even know some of these, but some of these are inexcusable for the native Texan woman.

    • @taniapinto8294
      @taniapinto8294 5 років тому +3

      Bexar would have been great they would never habe gotten that one

    • @taniapinto8294
      @taniapinto8294 4 роки тому +3

      @@fernandovaldez5118 You are right it is a county. They still wouldn't have gotten it though lol.

  • @handmaidmd
    @handmaidmd 2 місяці тому

    Mexia, TX resident right here! The old timers call it “Mah-hair”.

  • @skyx.21
    @skyx.21 2 роки тому

    "Lazy Bootie" I was dieing 🤣

  • @davidcartwright6174
    @davidcartwright6174 5 років тому +47

    There's a song by Waylon Jennings about Luckenbach, Texas

    • @lucaslaw4487
      @lucaslaw4487 5 років тому +3

      Exactly how do southern people not know how to say that

    • @bkiller2363
      @bkiller2363 5 років тому +3

      Lets go to Luckenbach Texas

    • @connerdale4221
      @connerdale4221 5 років тому +2

      @@bkiller2363 With Willie and Waylon and the boys

  • @youraveragebanana6494
    @youraveragebanana6494 5 років тому +67

    I am in Texas I pronounce almost all of these different

  • @jenniferlambert3886
    @jenniferlambert3886 3 роки тому

    So entertaining! Thanks!

  • @OutlawCaliber13
    @OutlawCaliber13 3 роки тому +3

    Folks gotta realize that we have a few different language influences--English, Spanish, German, Dutch, Native dialects, etc. Depending on the area, the originating community, etc will lend to different pronunciations. Just cause it's in Texas doesn't mean it's gonna be pronounced with the Texan drawl, or twang accents(yes, we have two different Southern accents to Texas itself).

  • @chrisarnoldTX
    @chrisarnoldTX 4 роки тому +75

    Someone revoke that women's Texan card

  • @SheepdogSmokey
    @SheepdogSmokey 5 років тому +19

    I'm a 41YO Texan, never lived anywhere else, trust me, we screw with names on purpose! I really wish they'd have put Pfluegerville in just so we see their "What? Why is there a P!?!?"

    • @silverlightx6
      @silverlightx6 3 роки тому +2

      Pflugerville, not far from Nameless. Which is a pretty bit of nothing.

    • @SheepdogSmokey
      @SheepdogSmokey 3 роки тому +1

      @@silverlightx6 Even if "a bit of nothing" Texas is always beautiful.

  • @kristigiles7846
    @kristigiles7846 2 роки тому

    John wayne was always asking have you ever been to Nacogdoches?

  • @shanerobertson2721
    @shanerobertson2721 3 роки тому

    “A hint for 200 Alex.” 🤣🤣

  • @eldergeek6077
    @eldergeek6077 5 років тому +29

    I guess none of heard of the song about Luckenback. That's where "ain't nobody feeling no pain". ;)

  • @kamrynkarlson8882
    @kamrynkarlson8882 5 років тому +950

    This button will turn blue if you live in Texas
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    • @jousemartinez1106
      @jousemartinez1106 5 років тому +2

      HOWDY

    • @addibraus7690
      @addibraus7690 4 роки тому +2

      I lived in Louisiana

    • @tonyawheelington
      @tonyawheelington 4 роки тому +3

      It's not turning blue? What happened?

    • @MrAztek
      @MrAztek 4 роки тому +8

      Tonya Wheelington it’s turning red instead

    • @hydro1821
      @hydro1821 4 роки тому +4

      I’m from California but live in Texas does that count.

  • @GidgitGraham
    @GidgitGraham 15 днів тому +1

    I don't know how that girl that lives in San Antonio didn't get Nacogdoches! That's a major road!

  • @terratheterribl
    @terratheterribl 4 роки тому +1

    I live in south Texas and there is a street near where I live that alot of people have trouble pronouncing. It's spelled Falfurias but pronounced "Fall-Foo-Ree-Us" lmao

  • @jamessantacruz2748
    @jamessantacruz2748 5 років тому +16

    "yall just makin' letters up" 😂 what

  • @TheDailyKyler
    @TheDailyKyler 5 років тому +151

    from Houston texas ya'll

    • @annadasht5141
      @annadasht5141 5 років тому +8

      From Arlington y'all! YEE HAH!🐎🐎🐎

    • @DevilleQueen
      @DevilleQueen 5 років тому +16

      H town represent. I know you laughed at everyone that mispronounced Humble & Nacagdoches!

    • @melissahays7677
      @melissahays7677 5 років тому +5

      Kyler or whatever Houston strong!!!!!

    • @joshuaschmitz
      @joshuaschmitz 5 років тому +12

      Should've added "Kuykendahl Rd" to this lol...were tf does the "R" come from 😂😂

    • @DevilleQueen
      @DevilleQueen 5 років тому +6

      Yess! I die a little inside when my navigation system tries to say "Kuykendahl"

  • @NelsonClick
    @NelsonClick 2 роки тому

    A man from Connecticut once corrected me on how I pronounced, "Manor, Elgin and Burnet". I told him I was born and raised there and it was the way everyone pronounced it. He said we were all wrong.

  • @WillieHoward954
    @WillieHoward954 4 роки тому +1

    "I'm doubting all of my grammatical education up until this point" 1:50 😂😂