I can’t think of any in Florida off the top of my head, but when we dine with people who see dolphin on the menu and assume people are ordering flipper I know they aren’t from here.
I got into a legitimate argument with my FIL after he and MIL returned from Florida and he told me he had eaten dolphin. To this day, I still think he thinks I am wrong about it being a dolphin fish and not an actual DOLPHIN.
I can’t think of any in Florida off the top of my head, but when we dine with people who see dolphin on the menu and assume people are ordering flipper I know they aren’t from here.
DeSantis’ hometown of Dunedin is ripe for mispronunciation.
I can’t think of any in Florida off the top of my head, but when we dine with people who see dolphin on the menu and assume people are ordering flipper I know they aren’t from here.
What is dolphin?
I admit if I saw dolphin I would think it was dolphin lol.
I’m from CA if it matters.
It's a type of fish (dolphinfish) - mostly called mahi mahi. Why they don't say that really doesn't make sense to me.
Post by somersault72 on Apr 11, 2023 11:29:04 GMT -5
The first one off the top of my head is in Cincinnati I can tell if a traffic reporter is new or not from here if they call Reading Rd "Reeding Rd." It's pronounced "Redding Rd."
There is a city in upstate NY- Oswego. My mom’s family is mostly from there and they pronounce it Os-wig-oh. Os-wee-go to everyone else and they correct you if you say otherwise.
I guess where I grew up there are a lot of questionable pronunciations because Google maps makes me laugh pretty hard if I try to use it on streets I “know”.
This discussion always annoys me and I can't really articulate why. Something about gate-keeping/us vs. them/judgement of outsiders/curse of knowledge...just...something. I don't know.
Post by midwestmama on Apr 11, 2023 11:42:16 GMT -5
There is a town in MI named Milan. It's pronounced MY-lan, not like the city in Italy. That side of the state also has Clio, where the 'i' is a long-i sound, not a long-e sound.
By where my parents are from in MI, there is a river named after Pere Marquette as he had come through the area (and obviously made an impression). Pere is pronounced "peer." And echoing CurlyQ284 for all the other French words/names in the area that aren't pronounced as they should be. (One example is Chauvez Road, which people pronounce as "Show-vee" Road.)
I live in West MI, which has a strong Dutch heritage, and I still struggle with some pronunciations even after living here for 20 years.
The hardest one around here is probably Schuylkill (river and expressway). Honestly I don't think people even try if they don't know (it's Skoo-kill). A lot of the pronunciations around here have more to do with the accent/intonation we have - it's kind of a mush mouth blend with an odd accentuation of certain vowels. When we got a new meteorologist on our ABC channel I wasn't even paying attention or watching (just background listening) and I immediately knew, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that she had either grown up here or spent a good amount of time here by the way she pronounced Poconos and coast. Which is pretty uncommon for a newscaster since they work hard to mask any accent.
Lancaster is the most frequent offender-it's LANK-aster (almost LANGKaster)
Lebanon is "LEBnin"
Bethlehem is Bethlum.
Here in Brooklyn it's Joralemon, Schermerhorn, and Kosciuszko
How do they pronounce this in Brooklyn? It's a family name for me (and a lot of other people - my ancestor who adopted it as a last name immigrated to New Amsterdam, so he now has a lot of descendants). Even in my family it's pronounced a few different ways.
I admit if I saw dolphin I would think it was dolphin lol.
I’m from CA if it matters.
It's a type of fish (dolphinfish) - mostly called mahi mahi. Why they don't say that really doesn't make sense to me.
This was super confusing to me because of the Swan and Dolphin hotels at Disney. The Swan has giant stone statues of swans, but the Dolphin has giant stone statues of... fish? When I stayed there in 2001 pre-modern internet, I remained confused but when I returned with DD in 2017, the internet taught me it's a type of fish.
I've lived in two places where people say "the" before they say highway numbers - Buffalo/WNY, and Los Angeles. So you'll tell someone to take "the 405 north to the 101 south" whereas in other places they tend to say just I-95 or 95 or something.
Lancaster is the most frequent offender-it's LANK-aster (almost LANGKaster)
Lebanon is "LEBnin"
Bethlehem is Bethlum.
Here in Brooklyn it's Joralemon, Schermerhorn, and Kosciuszko
How do they pronounce this in Brooklyn? It's a family name for me (and a lot of other people - my ancestor who adopted it as a last name immigrated to New Amsterdam, so he now has a lot of descendants). Even in my family it's pronounced a few different ways.
Skimmerhorn. Or some people have more of an e sound like Skemmerhorn.
Oregon - it’s not “Willa-mette”, it’s will-AM-ette
“it’s Willamette, damnit!” (I knew someone from there and that’s how they taught me to say it ).
My sister is a professor at Appalachian state and until she moved there/got that job I mispronounced Appalachia. She taught me it’s like “throw an apple atcha” lol
I thought this could get fun ... Spinning off the "Today I Learned" thread, what local pronunciation do you hear mispronounced by others, immediately marking them as an out-of-towner?
A few I have:
I live in upstate NY and if I hear "Al-bany" ("Al" like Al Bundy), I know they're not local. It's much closer to "All-bany" with a little "Aul-bany" slipped in.
I lived in Denver for years and if you pronounce Galapago St. like the Galapagos Islands, I know you're not a local. (gal-a-PAY-go)
My sister lived on the CA coast for years, in Lompoc. It's "Lom-poke", not "Lom-Pock."
In my favorite podcast, Let's Go To Court, the two ladies are from Kansas City and say Albany incorrectly and it kills me a little each time I hear it.
Monticello- the "cello" should be pronounced like the instrument with a ch sound and not like sello.
I can’t think of any in Florida off the top of my head, but when we dine with people who see dolphin on the menu and assume people are ordering flipper I know they aren’t from here.
I got into a legitimate argument with my FIL after he and MIL returned from Florida and he told me he had eaten dolphin. To this day, I still think he thinks I am wrong about it being a dolphin fish and not an actual DOLPHIN.
Yes, or Dorado if you are going with the Spanish name, which can also be seen in South Florida.
Growing up, locals had different names for most of the nearby highways. Not wildly different but it made OOT’ers a little nuts because the signs had the real names posted.
Some of the boroughs of NYC have renamed highways and bridges and I am personally offended.
Ok douche, go ahead and call it mud. My husband DID have halitosis. We addressed it after I talked to you girls on here and guess what? Years later, no problem. Mofongo, you're a cunt. Eat shit. ~anonnamus
Another MA town my husband couldn't remember - Haverhill. He called it Haver (like to have something) Hill instead of Hay-ver-ul
Hayvril ifyou’re really a local. Woburn is another one that trips people up. It’s said like Woobin if you have a Boston accent. Wooburn without the accent.
My friend in L.A. still makes fun of the way I said La Jolla when I went to visit her years ago.
I've lived in two places where people say the" before they say highway numbers - Buffalo/WNY, and Los Angeles. So you'll tell someone to take "the 405 north to the 101 south" whereas in other places they tend to say just I-95 or 95 or something.
Its easy to spot the folks visiting SF from LA because the second you hear the 80 or the 101, you KNOW they're not local.
I've lived in two places where people say "the" before they say highway numbers - Buffalo/WNY, and Los Angeles. So you'll tell someone to take "the 405 north to the 101 south" whereas in other places they tend to say just I-95 or 95 or something.
This is a total tell for some TV shows. Especially ones set in DC but written in LA bc they are all “Take the 495!”
Ellicott City is a big one besides the French words we don’t pronounce like they are French. We say “Ellie Kit” City others say it “Ellie Cot”.
It was just on the new show starring Milo Ventimiglia that I checked out because it’s supposed to take place in Baltimore and it was a dead giveaway they just picked some random place on the map to refer to.
There is a city in upstate NY- Oswego. My mom’s family is mostly from there and they pronounce it Os-wig-oh. Os-wee-go to everyone else and they correct you if you say otherwise.
I guess where I grew up there are a lot of questionable pronunciations because Google maps makes me laugh pretty hard if I try to use it on streets I “know”.
DH is from near there and MIL went to Oswego State. I tease them because when they say it, they drop the O. So it's just "'swego," with a soft e.
Having grown up in South Jersey and lived in Philly for 5 years, I've only ever heard it pronounced Pass-ee-unk. So that was different to me.
In NC, it seems like letters get dropped. So Fayetteville is Fa-vul, and Whiteville is Why-vul.
When people pronounce Toronto with the 2nd T. They even made a whole movie on a guy from Toronto and mispronounced it. 🙄🫠 do more research people!
Also many cities in the Netherlands.
Gouda is not pronounced with a G sound.
An old coworker of my H had this conversation with me once. So I try to pronounce it Tor-ONN-no whenever I can. I am constantly puzzled by Canadians who say ToronTo.
Me! I'm that Canadian pronouncing it with the 2nd T. 🤣
Not where I live anymore, but anyone who pronounces Calgary with emphasis on the GARY (like the name). Locals pronounce it "Cal-gree".
Also from living in London, you become a true Londoner when you can pronounce Marylebone (Marlee-bone) and Chiswick (Chiz-ick), and when you can keep a straight face when saying Cockfosters.