Brits Try To Pronounce American Towns
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- How will Tom, Ayesha, Mui, Ben & Sam fare when they try to pronounce US Town names? And we aren't joking, Zzyzx really is a place!
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Fun fact: one of the zip codes for Schenectady, New York, is 12345.
Pandora wont accept that as a zipcode anymore.
Yea that's the General Electric building, they snatched that number up when post codes first became a thing so people could mail them easily. Of course now they end up getting kids Santa letters (I am not kidding, my dad works there and every Christmas the mail workers take time out of their day to respond to these letters)
Wow, that's the combination on my luggage
@@emPtysp4ce
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv That's really sweet
"Zzyzx" sounds like the name of a heartburn medication.
Stop taking Zzyxx if you experience swelling, difficulty breathing, paralysis or death.
@@deniseatkinson8691 *people dancing in the background
Xyzal
@@Nick-lx4fo lol that's an allergy med
Don't take Zzyzx if you have a family history of asthma or other pre-existing heart conditions.
I definitely was hoping they’d get some Native American towns/cities. There’s so many I can’t even pretend to pronounce 😂
Nacogdoches
Michilimackinac, ypsilanti, charlevoix
I know it's so funny when people first try to pronounce Puyallup it's great🤣
Cuyahoga, winnipesaukee!
@@pengu82 being a michigander and Anishinaabe I feel like our cities are easy. They're said like they spelt. Except charlevoix. I believe that's French (the x is usually a sign of a French word up here lol)
Within thirty seconds, one woman says "shneck daddy" and a dude guesses "snake titty". This is brilliant.
Lmao then she says it sounds dirty… no kidding you made up your own word
Brits: "Glenelg" where did the "g" go?
Me: "Worcester".
Wista
@@michaelburke4975 I'd say it's more Wuhstah if your a native. Wuster if you're from Connecticut or some other New England town with a rotic accent.
@@megan_alnico Most people I know from Worcester pronounce it "wistah"
@@sachemofboston3649 With an 'i' sound.. interesting! I haven't talked to my Massachusetts friends in a while. I should check back in..
They added the last g just to make it a palindrome.
“What’s the point of having the G if you aren’t going to use it?” That’s how I feel about most of the English language. It’s infuriating.
It could be worse. There are even more silent g's in Italian.
When i tried to hire a private tour for a family gathering based out of Edinburgh, they told me they'd give me a cost estimate IF i could pronounce where we were staying: Kilconquhar.
i bet many Brits would miss that one too! (The tour operators were hilarious and we had a great day-trip through Scotland).
You mean like how "comb" rhymes with "gnome" but not with "womb"?
The thing is the English spelling is kinda fossilized while the spoken language evolves with time. So long story short, almost all of the silent letters in English words used to be pronounced, but as the language evolves, they were made silent. For example the "gh" in light was pronounced as /c/ and thus light was pronounced as /lict/ just like Licht in German. The same goes for the letter "k" in all words containing the "kn" combination (again comparison between knee in English and Knie /kni/ in German).
Like the extra" fe" in giraffe, lol
British people pronouncing American city names...
Americans: How the hell do you say that name???
I lot of these were fairly obscure cities.
I'd say only a couple were obscure.
I dunno, I pretty much already knew all of those.
Brit: Zzyzx.
American Me: Gezondheid? 😂
My favorite is Snakedaddy, New York. I need to visit that place. LOL 😆😜🤪🤗🤗🤗
It's funny he first pronounced Pflugerville with the P, because that's a joke sometimes here in Austin. Especially when they have their Pflugerville Pfireworks Pfestival at the Pflugerville Pfield (I wish I was joking)
Was Pflugerville named after Mr Pflug?
This comment is underrated
@@denisenilsson1366 Mr. Pfluger, yes.
69 likes don't ruin it lol
I have an Uncle that moved to Pflugerville last year. I really feel the need to pick at him about the Pfestival. Lol
“I feel like Lafayette is a place you’d want to go to a bed and breakfast”
*Laughs in Louisiana*
when talking about zzyzx california the girl said "you know thats kind of a hot name for a place not gonna lie" well she's right, literally. the town is in the mojave dessert and is one of the hottest places on earth. during the summer time has reached temperatures of 130 degrees (54.4 celsius) one of the hottest air temperatures ever recorded anywhere on the earth.
As someone who hates the heat, I think I wouldn't go there. Ever....
I've been there, and it is
From the people who brought you "Worcestershire."
Worcester, MA
And Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Aberystwyth
😂
New England is full of those types of names :)
@@crowbar9566 there's also a Gloucester, MA and a Leicester, MA
A lot of the city names in America are derived from Native Americans.
ThatsJazzy And the states.
As I understand there simply is just no translation. Chapaquidik comes to mind.
Yes. I’m from Oklahoma. Since we were “Indian territory” before becoming a state many of city names come from Native American words. While it’s really fascinating it also is saddening to think on the history and what happened here.
I went to college in Tahlequah the Cherokee Nation/Capital. You can take courses in Cherokee there. :)
Cerulean Lion That’s so cool and interesting that you can still learn Cherokee! I live in Virginia/DC area and there’s definitely names of areas like Roanoke and Rappahannock.
A lot of city / towns in USA are from uk
It's actually pronounced "Seattle".
“It’s like someone mashed the keyboard.”
Welsh: hold my tea
How do you pronounce llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?
Just like it’s spelled:
*chaos and guttural ch’s*
@@eauhomme Just like they do over there: "chumley"
Lmaoooooo
Seriously is “o ddifrif” lol
"wheres the g gone?" bold words coming from a place that spells 'lester' as liecester
‘Leicester’ actually!
We put e at the end of so many words and the e ends up becoming silent so I end up feeling like them
@@th3radlad_727 It's very French to do that.
Exactly!! Anytime I watch Jamie Vardy play, I just shake my head that Brits say “Lester”! Makes zero sense to me
As someone from Lafayette, LA...we do not say it that way...we say “Lah-fee-yet” or “Laugh-ee-yet”. Pretty sure it’s the same in Indiana. Only “Lah-fah-yet” in French, usually. :)
It is! I'm from the one in Indiana.
Depends how hard your accent is, really. Im in Kentucky. We have a school here, Lafayette H.S. We call it Lah-fah-yet.
I thought those of us who have lived there, say "Lay-flat"
THANK YOU!!!
That's right
Disappointed they didn’t pick one of the MANY towns in Washington that is named after Native tribes...
I love it when people first try to pronounce Puyallup.
@@increaseyourstats It's used in the game "SPOT THE TOURIST!" So is Sequim.
As a British person who lived in Washington State, I am smug over my ability to pronounce the place names there
@@increaseyourstats Yeah I know it's hilarious🤣
We've got plenty of those on Long Island, too: Ronkonkoma, Nissequogue, Amaganssett.
I love hearing the people from whom we got Worcestershire ask, "Why is that letter there if you're not going to say it?"
😆 it’s all good fun
People who created the language with words like phone.
Wustuhshuh
Woostuhsheer, Woostuhsheeuh (like idea) or Woostuhshuh
Bri’ish
I'm also surprised they didn't give them Poughkeepsie. 😆
Sorry Buzzfeed, but any Kentuckian knows Louisville is pronounced "Loo-vill."
Many Kentuckians are disagreeing with what you said here in the comments
@@kaldo_kaldo I read those comments and I think the "u" is open to interpretation. Sometimes you can hear it. Sometimes you can't (especially with the old-timers). But nevermind I lived there for 10 years and grew up in Western Kentucky.
I always pronounced it as Louie ville. Am I wrong?
Ville is pronounced vul
Source: born and raised in Loouhvul
@@Bombo505 Yes. Like Zach said we prounounce it Loouuhvul
I can't believe they didn't attempt anything like Schuykill or Oconomowoc.
O con o mowak🙃
As I don't live far from Oconomowoc -- I live in Wauwatosa -- I can pronounce it just fine.
Missed opportunity with Native American named cities!
Hahahahahahahaha!!! I was thinking the same thing as a Wisconsinite myself.
Schuykill!!! I’m from Philly.
As a Louisvillian, while “Loo-ih-vill” as they said it in the “correct” pronunciation is technically acceptable, anyone from here will tell you, it’s Loo-vull or Loo-uh-vull!!
Until you move to Colorado and they call a little suburb Lew-issville. Who’s in charge here?
My kin are from KY and I came here looking for this comment.
As a fellow citizen of the Commonwealth, I came looking for this. The "vul" is imperative!
From Cincinnati, and I know that the fastest way to tell someone, (Americans included), is not from the general area is to hear them pronounce it Lou-ee-ville... The more “uh” sound you put in that word, (2nd *and* 3rd syllable), the better! I’ve even heard some of my KY relatives with a very strong accent pronounce it in a way that sounds almost like “Lullvull.”
It's like Ne-va-duh and N'-vaah-duh.
Ok that Louisville one wasn’t fair. Even within Kentucky we have two pronunciations. Like I say it like I’ve got a mouth full of marshmallows but others will still say pronounce it “looey-ville”.
Very True. I pronounce it the other way as stated in the video. I've always told people to pronounce it as if you're saying the name Louis but drop the ee sound at the name and replace it with an uh sound then end it with vul as in the first syllable of the word vulture. So, "Louhvul."
Loo UH vull
I pronounce it Loo-uh-vul as wlel.
same with New Orleans. There a variety of pronunciations.
Hoosiers say "Loouhvull"
Only out-of-towners call it "Boizee." We pronounce the 'S' here!
Exactly!
That's what I thought. Out of towner here but know someone from Boise with an 's' sound.
Where was Pocatello? That would be more interesting.
@Joel S that's pleasing
JUST explain this to my daughter; and you proved my point! Boy C, right?
Sitting here in Utah with Tooele (too-will-uh), Duchesne (doo-shane), and Mantua (man-oo-way)... lmao 🤣
I lived in Duchesne County Utah for 12 years lol
To be fair, we Americans don’t even know how to pronounce most of these names.
I like Americans.
Tombstoner Forever, I like Americans so much that I married one. :)
Speak for yourself. I knew most of them
Alana Higgins 😭 which one they’re a lot?
What? I knew all except for Glenelg and Zzyzx. Tucson, Des Moines, Louisville, Boise are all pretty well-known domestically
America, I am *confusion*
America *EXPLAIN*
I hate that I understood that reference.😂 RIP VINE
🤣💀 kansas and arkansas (arkensaw). Love that vine
@@nicholassookdeo9441 In Kansas we pronounce the state of Arkansas as everyone else does, but the river, border to border within Kansas, is pronounced as the Ar-KAN-sas River.
@@michaelrutledge3750 Whatever you do if your in Akransas don't ever say Ar-KAN-sas about anything. They get really offended. That can almost start a bar fight.
@@melissa7233 LOL. I never go to Arkansas, so it won’t be a problem, but I suspect Kansans irritate every Arkansan who ventures near the Arkansas River in our state. I suppose they could retaliate with mispronouncing our state name, but we’re pretty chill about such things.
Got a giggle from this watching it from Pflugerville, Tx. For the person who wondered, yes, it's quite pretty, being right up against Austin. Lots of trees.
Tom's really good in the game😆.Like how he knew diff language where the words are possibly derived from.
I finally know how to say Zzyzx after seeing the sign a million times on my way to Vegas
I’ve always heard it as Ziz-Iks, basically how Tom said it!
I moved to Vegas from Illinois (silent s!) years ago and knew about Zzyzx and past it a million times going to California. I always heard it was pronounced Ziz-iks but now I know. I've been saying it wrong all this time. Learn something new everyday.
Ah yes, "Vaygis"
Zy ziks
Tom: America, I'm gonna need you to try a bit harder with your place names, because I got it
*2 seconds later*
Zzyzx: Your wish is my command
I see what you did there. Colossal Cave Adventure?!
Here in Michigan we have Ypsilanti, Dowagiac, Ludington, L'Anse, Sault Sainte Marie, St. Ignace, and Mackinac Island.
And Ontonagan. i have a lot of cousins there.
laud yes.. Soo Saint Marie 🤣
Don’t forget Germfask......
@@tiffanypatton9293 how do you say it? I'd guess Germ Flask🤷
@@annedavis6090 first part is Germ second part is like flask but without the l. It’s the letters of the people who settled the town
I was expecting more Native American place names :/
i’m surprised there wasn’t any long island town names in this vid. it definitely would’ve been entertaining to watch someone try to pronounce Ronkonkoma and Aquebogue lmaooo
UA-cam Ruined Me I was thinking the same thing but with some cities in Florida like thonotosassa or kissimmee.
@@Newspeak. I would have a guess but it's not exactly something I could convey through text.
My aunt lives in Ronkonkoma! 😅
You should have included towns with more Native American origin names. They will really be confused! 😂
Yep, I lived in Kankakee, IL for quite a while. It's from the Miami-Illinois Algonquian language. It's also about 60 miles south of Chicago, fwiw.
British creates a town's name :
That's it, that's York
America creates a town's name :
Hmm just gonna add New into it, voila, New York
🤣🤣
Ravi Asmara to be fair, it was the English who named it New York lol
It was called New Amsterdam first not New York but who cares about facts :-)
it’s cos we colonised them not cos they chose to 😂
Brits names it New York before the USA was 1 big country it was owned by European nations who gave it a lot of the names
I prefer the original York ten times better
Being Brits, they should know the Beatles song lyric, "Jo Jo left his home in Tucson, Arizona for some California grass"
Too long ago. And Get Back was not one of their most famous.
What does that lyrics mean? Does it mean Jojo wants to sit on the grass in California? Or is that a reference to marijuana?
@@carultch Definitely a weed reference!
I think it's "bought some California grass".
Not all of us like the beatles lmao
Where's the 'g' gone, say people who pronounce "Leicester" as "Lester". ;)
We pronounce it that way in Eastern Mass. as well but we drop the 'r' like in most parts of England, i.e., "Lesta". NEVER "Lyekesster" or "Lyecesster"
Hey Ed. I'm also in Mass. I made the ungodly mistake of calling Billerica Bill-erica when I first read it. Lol how do you feel when people pronounce the "H" in town names that end in "-ham"? Lol makes me cringe a little. Lol
"Worcestershire"
@@Roonasaur this killed me when my ex took me there to meet their family. The Midwestern in me was just like “Wat”
And Gloucester = "Gloster"
Really thought Poughkeepsie, NY was going to be on here.
or Wantagh
Or Mamaroneck
Coxsackie really missed it's moment to shine. It's damn near tragic. Nanuet, Saugerties, Wawayada, Mahopac, Buchanan, Katonah, Nyack, Ramapo, Chappaqua, Ossining there's so many in the Hudson Valley.
@@blackbarnz Where's Waywayonda? Way Way Yonda!
@@andrewhawkins6754 lol. Way way yonda near Middletown.
Recommendation: Try to pronounce cities in Oklahoma. Examples; Poteau, Chickasaw, Tahlequah, Nuyaka, Weleetka, etc. As a Native American myself, I can recognize that some of these are WILD.
Oklahoma town names are real interesting
Native American from Michigan, we have a similar issue here lol.
Oklahoma doesn't have a lock on weird names. In Louisiana there's Natchitoches, Tangipahoa, Ponchatoula, Pontchartrain, and Maringouin, among others.
@@SessaV Also from Michigan. There was a guy in the early days of statehood who named a lot of places.... a lot of the "Indian" names he just made up.... and came up with the meaning later. :-)
@@jimsteele9261 I'm Anishinaabe, I was going off more of our words that were used as names, not just some of the random ones that seem to catch people up, or the French ones (though those amuse me too. My ex was from California, and hearing him try to say cadiux, dequindre, or schooner cracked me up, or explaining that mackinac and mackinaw are said the same, ones just the French spelling)
Originally, I'm from Charlevoix. A lot of our towns (in Michigan) are French and Native America.
“La is such and American pronunciation.”
The French: b-but
AJ M...exactly, they just to have to whine about the only purely French name of a Count whose pronunciation is exactly French!
Actually no, in french the stress would be in -ette
@@marinazagrai1623 According to another comment thread, nobody living in any place called Lafayette in the US actually says it like that. It's always "Lah-fee-yet" or "Lah-fay-yet"
It brings to mind the American pronunciations of ‘pasta’ and ‘taco’, definitely a Yankee vibe to it!
nat funny, since neither pasta nor taco are even English words.
As a Kentuckian born and raised, I am so disappointed in the “correct” pronunciation of Louisville.
Literally same. Makes me cringe whenever other kentuckians say it that way.
Isn't it Loo-euh-ville or something like that? I heard it a while back lol
Jalil Buckseehosen i say it like lul-vull
I live in Louisville i think they said it fine
moonbebey This is why I say throwing Louisville in there was a trick. Even we have different pronunciations within our own state! We can’t expect others to know which one is “correct” when we don’t even know 😂
“I’ve got Schenectady on my foot.”
🤣😂🤣😂
His humour is dry, and unusual. I'm here for it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"I believe it's actually pronounced Seattle" 🤣😂
There's a Glenelg in Scotland too, near the Isle of Skye.
Probably what its named after?
Is it pronounced the same?
Lara Young the Scottish one has the g at the end pronounced, but with very little emphasis.
They only chucked the G at the end to make it a palindrome
Also one in Australia, in Adelaide
Seeing the road sign for Zzyzx makes me happy every time. On Highway 15 on the way to Las Vegas.
That’s funny because I’ve traveled on the 15 many times, but I don’t remember Zzyzx at all. Maybe it is a mythical place. 😅
@@arnoldrivas4590 I've made at least 200 trips to Vegas since 2004 and I am always glad to see Zzyzx Road. It tells me I'm close to Baker which means I'm just a little over an hour away from my favorite gambling town!
In the middle of literal nowhere! Buy halfway to somewhere, so I agree - always happy to see that sign 🙌
Lol I live in Wisconsin in the USA. Try and pronounce our towns lol Waukesha.... Manitowoc, Chetek, Oconomowoc, Weyauwega, Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest, Menomonie, Kaukauna. Just to name a few lol I love when my friends from out of state and out of the US come to visit and have no idea what I say lol
When relatives are driving up nort and I tell them the names. They blank out
I live in Wisconsin too. I live in Wauwatosa. It's funny listening to outsiders mangling our city names. When I worked in Elm Grove, a lady was trying to find a Brookfield business on 126th Street. "I keep on ending up in this Wok-kah-toe-sah," she said, somehow combining Waukesha and Wauwatosa.
To be fair, I worked with someone from Wisconsin who said she was from “Fawk Rick”. Or at least that’s what I heard. “Fall Creek” is what she was really saying.
@@lulubelle65 holy Lord lol that doesn't even sound American lol Fall Creek folks don't have much of an accent. She must have secretly been from waaaaay up North lol
Wor-keesha Maneeto-wok Che-tech Okko-nomo-wok Wayor-weega Chek-wamme-john Nicolay, Menomonee, Kau-kau-na is my best shot
They went easy on you guys.
For example; Puyallup, Murfreesboro, Mamaroneck, Wantagh, Hauppauge, Copiague, Massapequa, Spuyten Duyvil, Leominster and Scituate
Pyuyallup (someone else here told me)
Murfreezbro (thanks to Strong Bad)
Mammaronnek
Wantaw
Hoppog?
Coppiog
Massapeekwa
Spoytin Doyvil
L'minster
****uate?
Don't forget Sequim!
I had to LOL that most of that list is in New York. The Michigan cities like Ypsilanti, Hamtramck and Sault Ste. Marie will definitely stump them.
@@intrepidfox37
Upsilanty
Hamtrumck
Soo San Maly
The last two are pronounced "'Lem-min-ster" or "'Lem-min-stuh" and "'Sit-chew-it"
Y'all need to do Washington's native tribe cities
Like "Puyallup" WA
@@giantsquid2 that ones easy 🤣
I'm talking S’Klallam or Suak-Suiattle
Sequim got me after 20 years in Washington. I'd heard it before, but never seen it in writting til I read a brochure out loud once. Still living that down.
Washougal, Wa born and raised!
Snoqualmie would be a good one
Zzyzx is the place where Polish settlers met the Incas and went "hey we love those letters too!"
Actually the true the history behind this name could be straight out of The Simpsons.
Curtis Howe Springer made up the name Zzyzx and gave it to the area in 1944, claiming it to be the last word in the English language
@@TheInkPitOx actually there's a podcast about it, he said it so it would be the last thing under "health" in the phonebook... so he could be the last word in health. Yeah it was a brag
@@MrSpock.. I've never bothered with podcasts. I can't even believe they're still a thing.
@@TheInkPitOx alright, to each their own, but just thought I'd let you know where you can find out more. You could also probably find the transcript to read, if that's your thing.
@@MrSpock.. Thanks
To be fair, see what the average American does with Worcestershire, the River Ouse, Leicester, or Cymru.
Unfortunately worcrcershire is a sauce, so I know that one well. Also theres a place in Massachusetts called Worcester. Although I cant be bothered to spell so what do I know
@@serpentmaster1323 There's a reason they spelled the one in Ohio "Wooster."
We have a Leicester, pronounced sort of like "Lester". Small town in Massachusetts.
@@MrRyanKaminski Mass seems to be unique in retaining the original spelling and pronunciation of many town names.
In California we pronounce Worcestershire "WAR-shter-sherr." I've never heard anyone say "Wooster sauce." If someone did ask for "Wooster sauce" they'd probably get "rooster sauce," aka "cock sauce," aka sriracha.
Hello from Camarillo, California!!!!
Camarillo? Wha', you CRAZY?
I'm a Brit and I guessed the name of your city correctly! Yay. It sounds nice!
@Lau taro No, but it's as close as a non-Spanish speaker is likely to get. They don't flap the r, and it comes more like CamerEEo.
I wasn't expecting the name to be pronounced the Spanish way. I'll have to remember if we're ever in your boondocks.
My best friend lives in Camarillo! I’m from Ventura so I goto Camarillo a lot
They needed to come to Florida and try Kissimmee, Chokoloskee and Micanopy
Kiss-im-me
Chock-o-los-key
mick-can-oh-pee
@@TheInkPitOx Mick-ah-no-pee
Micanopy is actually my little brothers name. So yeah😂
There are several Lafayettes in the U.S a d the way they are pronounced is different sometimes due to regional accents. For instance, Lafayette, Indiana is more often pronounced "Laffy-ette" or "Lahffy-ette"
Yes, and as a Hoosier, you know better than to pronounce it a French way, ironic though that may seem to some.
As a native southern californian, it hurts my heart every time I hear someone mispronounce the double L's.
And as a guy born and raised in LA, I agree.
I once hear an English celebrity asked to read a traffic report on a San Diego radio station. When he mispronounced La Jolla as "La Jol-la" instead of "La Hoy-ah", there was a rash of calls to the radio station. I could almost feel the cringe in the radio station's sound engineer's spine when he/she heard that mispronunciation.
@@karlwebb2588 lol I used to pronounce it "La Joll-la"
I'm from Mass and I cringe when I hear people pronounce the "H" in towns that end in "-ham." Lol in their defense, though, I mispronounced a town name here in Mass and was schooled immediately. I'm from the western half and there's a town in the eastern half called Billerica. When I first saw it I read it as "Bill-erica." I was immediately taught is "Bill-ricka." Lol
as a resident of camarillo it hurts when people from oxnard pronounce camarillo wrong
Props to remembering Bugs, dude! He shoulda taken a left turn there.
Sometimes city names are "silly" or "hard to pronounce" because they're derived from native american language that most people are not aware about anymore.
You completely missed my favourite which I found while looking at a map Slicklizzard, AL. Probably not hard to pronounce but wonderfully quirky!
Here in Tennessee we have Frog Jump and Buck Snort
We also have an (unofficial) town named Slapout, as in "perpetually slap out of anything you might want to buy in its general store". The actual town is Holtville, Alabama, about 25 miles northwest of Montgomery.
( www.alabamapioneers.com/slapout-holtville-american-idol/ )
Here in Texas we have Waxahachie.
Haha 9:13 "thats just the end of the alphabet ". "Seattle"
Louisville is pronounced 'Lou-ee-ville' in a lot of the country. That's like not giving them a point for saying 'New Or-leens' just because people in New Orleans pronounce it 'New Or-lans'. It's still an accepted pronunciation.
Shaun, I’m from Louisiana and most of us say “N’Orlans”. The video got “Lafayette” wrong, too. We say “Laffy-ette”.
I'm from near Louisiana so I'm not technically a local but it's definitely new or-lins/or-lans
I've only ever heard it pronounced Lou-ee-ville, I've never heard it said like the pronunciation thing they used
The way it’s pronounced in the video is closer to how locals would pronounce it.
Jeff Walenta Depends on which locals you mean. Even us kentuckians don’t even have a standardized way of saying it. We do have our personal preferences though.
Should have included Natchitoches, Louisiana.
I just said that and then scrolled and saw your comment 😂
And Nacogdoches, TX!
A friend of mine used to call the town "Nasty Toe Cheese", and that's just stuck with me even though I know how to pronounce it. lol
Isn't that pronounced Nagaditch Louisiana? and the Texas one is Nagadochis?😁
@@annedavis6090 close... it's Nakatish :) Never been to the Texas town.
Britains : Learning to pronounce American's Towns
Americans : Learning to pronounce British words
Together : Both of these continents will learn more about America's culture.
Americans, learning how to pronounce American Towns, lol
Osagie E. Guobadia Either that or your dentures fall out
That's a good joke... and also tragically true.
I love how I also knew how to pronounce Tucson from hearing it in Ugly Betty 😂😂
This is funny. I’d like to suggest Brits vs Americans from Massachusetts/New England pronounce town names they have in common. As a native Bostonian, we have so many names that came from England but are pronounced as only a New Englander can! Example: Peabody is pronounced like “pea-buddy” and said quickly. I’d love to see their reactions to those kinds of things. 😊
Woburn, too.
I'm from Western Mass and screwed up Billerica years ago. I called it Bill-erica and was quickly corrected by a buddy from Tewksbury that said it was Bill-ricka. Lol I giggle listening to people murder the name Chicopee. Lol then there's that Barre. Lol
Tucson Arizona has me singing Get Back by The Beatles "JoJo left his home in Tucson Arizona, for some California grass"
yesssss :D
get back Jo Jo
As a native Idahoan, I speak for all Idahoans when I say it’s not BOY-Z, it’s BOY-C.
💯
The thing is Americans have just as much trouble pronouncing British towns😂
Ok and?
@@jessiejones7141 wow someone got up the wrong side of the bed 👀
Yeah, that's where the idea of this video came from... they did the "Americans try to pronounce British towns" video a week or so ago.
@@thedragonsunicorn Lol all i said was ok and? Take it how you will tho i dont care honestly lmao.
I found it funny when they kept asking where the last "g" went in "Glenelg" and making comments about silent letters because a lot of British towns have a numerous silent letters in them.
Schenectady is a Mohawk word that means “beyond the pines”.
Hello from Boise, Idaho 🙂
The computer voice "almost" got it correct. It's Boy-C... not "Boy-Z". But pretty cool my city was on here!! 💚
I think this could be the subject of a whole other video: people from Idaho vs other Americans debating the pronunciation lol. Same with Louisville; I’d throw in New Orleans too.
I'm from Ohio, and I've only heard people say "Boy-Z" when referring to Boise.
I’m your neighbor from WA and have never heard anyone make the distinction. 😅
Am I a bad person if I still think "bwahs" sounds like a better pronunciation of "Boise"?
Idahoan here. Definitely boy-c
The locals in Louisville say "Loo-vull"
Locals say one of 3 pronunciations. No consensus. Some kentuckians have clear accents, others not so much.
@@SolidSiren I live right across the river from Louisville. I say Looey-vill, but I grew up elsewhere. Most natives I know say Loo-vull. Of course, I can't speak for everyone.
@@SolidSiren my gran kind of said loo vull but it sounded more like law vull
I’m American, and even I pronounce some of these wrong. I’ve never even heard of Glenelg or Zzyzx.
Other fun Indiana towns: Versailles = ver-sales; Vevay = veevee; Loogootee = low-go-tee; Monticello = mon-tuh-sell-o. I used to travel with my dad on summer break. We’ve done a number on every language out there.
Also: Terre Haute=tare-uh-hote and LaFontaine=luh-fountain lol
I need one of these, but with only places/things in Pennsylvania. Schuylkill, Monongahala, Schoeneck, Conshohocken, etc. We've got good ones!
You're right. In Philly itself I still trip over some street names. Passyunk, Tulpehocken, Wissahickon ughhhhh
7:01 “where does the (g) go?”
BRITISH WORCESTERSHIRE: “wosteshe” WHERE DOES THE “SHIRE” GO?
It’s there.
it's pronounced worce-ster-shire rather than wor-ces-ter-shire, just like how leicester is pronounced leice-ster ('lester'), it's not that difficult if you know this
@@nadinevanderjagt9737 no it isn't. There's not that many syllables in Worcestershire. It's pronounced "wersht-er-sher". And it's stupid. Lol
wistasure
@@sachemofboston3649 Woostashr.
Try some Louisiana places: Tchefunte, Tchoupitoulas, Marigny, St. Amant, Caliope(nope, not that way-the New Orleans way), Freret Street, Atchafalaya, Carrollton, Theriot, Opelousas, Kaliste Saloom Road, and my favorite Natchitoches, Louisiana versus Nacogodoches, Texas.
Indeed, I was shocked when I first heard the "correct" pronunciation of "Nack-a-dish", Louisiana. How do they pronounce that town in Texas?? Does it sound like it could be a lyric in that old Mary Poppins song (Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious)?
@@Stiglr I suspect "Nag-a-doash"
im literally from maryland and can tell you that everyone pronounces that last g, no one pronounces it glen-el, we say glen-elg
edit: oh my god. i just looked up the local high school named glenelg high school and found out people actually do say glen-el🤯 so its a mix between people that pronounce the g and the people that dont. you learn something new every day....
Same thing happens in my state, depending on where you are from in the state, you will pronounce the town names differently. The closer you are to the place the more letters you drop from the pronunciation!
The US town that is the most fun to say: Kalamazoo
I think Kissimmee is funny, kis sem me
Also here in Indiana we have Madrid, pronounced Mad rid..
Russiaville is Rooshavill...
EURIPODES *Woolloomooloo* , Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
I prefer saying Intercourse.
A town in PA.
@@Egilhelmson to what?
Zzyzx is a town you pass when you are driving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. The guy who named the town wanted it to be the last town in the alphabet.
I saw the the sign when I drove that road! It was in the 90s, I looked at my mom and said "Zyx??' haha
Amma make another town called Zzzz
Those are easy. Try Tecumseh or Lotawata, there are a lot of native American names.
I agree. I'm British and even the ones I hadn't heard of were easy to guess.
I knew all but two of them, and I even pronounced them correctly.
Totally agreed!
Dowagiac, Michilimackinac, Ocqueoc, Ontanogan, Cheboygan, Ypsilanti, Charlotte... Michigan alone has plenty of (mostly Native American) harder place names than those in the video!
Mariposa en Peru Charlotte is a native name??
Hi@@amelieicantfly ! No, and Charlotte and Ypsilanti are exactly the reason I put "mostly Native American" in parentheses. 👍🏻 "Charlotte" is of English origin, but the pronunciation of the Michigan town Charlotte differs from the standard pronunciation of the name as used elsewhere. ;-) Ypsilanti is of Greek origin.
Some of the strangest US names are in California because they're Native American names first written down by Spanish settlers: Tejon, Hueneme, Tuolumne, Cahuenga. In West Virginia there's Kanawha (a city, a county, and a river) which no outsider pronounces correctly. Then you have US cities named after European cities which Americans mispronounce like Versailles Kentucky (care to guess?) BTW the video is wrong, Boise is "BOY-see" for locals. Only outsiders put a "Z" in it.
I live in Maryland and I definitely been pronouncing it as “GlenelG” 💀
Same. I don’t know what they were doing. They’re clearly not from here.
I used to live in Humble, TX.- The H is silent. This where Howard Huges was actually born.
That's because it was named after the Jack Humble Co - now known as Exxon. You can tell who's relatively new to Houston area by how they pronounce it. My Grandpa was a Pipeliner for the Humble Co.
You mean 'Oward Ewes? 🤣
Every state has its Spot The Tourist names--Refugio, Study Butte, Leakey, Bexar County.
As someone from Louisville, we don't even know how to pronounce the city's name correctly.
The real fun ones are when we use foreign words, but with a whole new pronunciation.
Yep, a lot of the place names in Iowa and Illinois are French (due to the Voyageurs naming half our each state). However, we alter the living crap out of the pronunciation.
Missouri, too
Minnesota & Wisconsin too.
i was like ive seen hamilton i know its lafayette
It's Lafayette Louisiana but it's it's Lafayette, Indiana (Loffee-ett).
We pronounce it Laf fee ett or Laf eye ett in Louisiana.
I’m from Maryland and everyone that I know here pronounces the last g in Glenelg. Not many people pronounce it like the “correct” way that is shown. I feel like the correct way should be whatever the locals say, as in “loo-uh-vull”, instead of “loo-ee-vill”, for Louisville, Kentucky.
I've only lived in Maryland for...um...17 years, but this is the first time I've ever heard of dropping the g on the end. 🤷🏾♂️
I’m more mad at how the Bot pronounced “Maryland”. Everybody from Maryland is going to pronounce it like “Murrlen”
@@skinsfanh88 At least in Baltimore and Howard County, I've never heard anyone say it like that, maybe what you're talking about is a regional thing. The bot said it like how everyone I know says it.
Jake Hogan I’m from PG County born and raised. most black people I know from Baltimore say it the same way I do, I don’t know anybody in Maryland that says it like that bot unless they came here from somewhere else.
Jake ua-cam.com/video/z91m_PYnchA/v-deo.html Here’s an example of what I mean
Who is American and had trouble with a couple? ME! lol
I'm Californian and had trouble with both.
Yeah I thought Zzyzx was pronounced "ziscks"
Zzyzx was a stumper for me. Lol
they got off easy. include some massachussetts names.
*Massachusetts
(so close)
@@Nat_the_Chicken It's pronounced "mass-holes".
@@megan_alnico Well, that's the residents, but yeah
Like Scituate, Somerville, Haverhill, Lowell, Chelmsford, Billerica, Nantasket, Nantucket, Concord (that should be wicked easy but most people get it wrong), Cochituate, Woburn, Stoneham, Swampscott, Revere, Quincy, Newton, Petersham, Framingham, Natick, and even Boston!
No Kentuckians say "Louisville" the same way, so they're all right.
too true. lol
It would be interesting to see how they pronounce Tooele seeing as everybody not from Utah can't pronounce it.
Lafayette is pronounced “Laffy-ette”. I would have liked to see them try some of the other Louisiana names. 🤣
I'm from the south and I've always heard laf-ay-ette
Eve likes bacon, I’m from Louisiana. We say it like I’ve shown above. Lol! I didn’t know New Orleans was 2 separate words until I learned to read! Most of us just combine it into “N’Orlans”. And the only time you hear OrLEANS with a strong E is when you say the parish name. 🙂
Regarding Tucson, have they never heard Get Back by the Beatles?
Not all of us like the beatles enough to remember the lyrics to one of their lesser known songs 🥴
@@Jade-fs9kh Lesser known only to people who live under cultural rocks. Brits especially should know about the Beatles, still the top selling musicians of all time and at the top of most lists of most influencial musicians of the 20th century.
@@williamjordan5554 as I said, not all of us like them. Why would I listen to something I don't like?
I would love to have seen their reactions to Versailles, Kentucky. They'd be pronouncing it vare-SIGH, like the French town, when it's actually pronounced ver-SAILS.
We have one of those in Washington state. It's spelled Des Moines but pronounced Duh Moinz. :)
Someone else may already have noted that Boise is pronounced with a soft "s" in most of the country but was traditionally pronounced with a hard "s" in Boise City itself. The recording should have given both variants and explained the difference IMHO.
I found it interesting the some of the participants mentioned silent letters since they have no problem with Leicestershire and Worcestershire and other like names in the UK. Just sayin.
PS I was wrong on several of the names even though I have lived in the USA nearly all of my 74 years.
*Britain's pronouncing Us town names*
Me: Ok
Buzzfeed: Pronounce "Zzsndhchsheuehtjfhxbebrb"
For a very long time the last person in the Chicago phone book was a Zyzzy Zyzzx. For real. (yes, I am old, I remember phone books and being bored enough to read them.)
What??? I've lived in Maryland my entire life, I have never heard of Glenelg, like what even 😂😂😂
I went to school in glenelg. It's not that big, pretty rural just west of columbia.
Lots of Americans can’t say “Leicester,” Mass. or “Leominster,” Mass.
or Gloucester.
Or Haverhill, Peabody, or Woburn.
Or they pronounce the "H" in names that end in "-ham." Yuck. Lol jk we can have them try Billerica.