• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    There’s a Newark NJ and a Newark DE.

    The Jersey one is pronounced Newurk and the Delaware one is pronounced New Ark. It’s mildly inconvenient.

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      2 months ago

      The little town in Texas is also “New Ark”.

      Some of my other favorites:

      Texas

      • Montague = mon-TAYG (hard ‘g’)
      • Italy = IT-lee (2 syllables)
      • Buda = BUD-duh (EDIT: or is it BYOO-duh ?)

      Georgia

      • Vienna = VYE-eena
      • Cairo = KAY-roe

      Canada (less experience here, tbf)

      • Newfoundland = NEW-fin-LAND (do NOT slur the “land” part. Enunciate!)
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        Texas has so many. Bogota pronounced buh-GO-duh

        Arkansas has a Lafayette county pronounced luh-FAY-it even though that county literally borders Louisiana.

        Don’t even get me started on Bowie, DeKalb, or Houston.

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          Ah yes. “Hoo-ston” and “How-ston” are definitely both things.

          “De-kab” and “De-kalb”

          Haven’t run into the Bowie one.

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            In Texas it’s Boo-wee. That was the man’s name as is the knife that bears it. Outside of Texas people mispronounce it as Bow-ee like Ziggy Stardust.

            If you’re talking about David (rest in power) Bowie, then it’s Bow-ee. But the knife is Boo-wee.

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          2 months ago

          I’m gonna add one I love trotting out from Oklahoma.

          There’s a Miami, Oklahoma. It’s pronounced My-am-uh.

          I’ve got about a billion from Oklahoma specifically.

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          2 months ago

          I defer to you then. I just know it’s not Booduh like it god damned well should be. Was reminded elsewhere in this thread that we also have a Ne-VAY-duh in Texas, to say nothing of the Native American placenames that almost every state has specifically to fuck with newcomers, even though they undoubtedly moved from a state that has its own examples.

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            2 months ago

            Lol, that’s what I thought it was until they corrected me on the phone. I don’t live anywhere near there but that’s how they say it to me.

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      There’s also a Newark Ohio which is pronounced something like ‘nu-urk’ or even ‘nurk’ by some (the latter I always took as people being silly, but I don’t even know anymore).