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[–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    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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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Company I work for is based in Buda but everyone pronounces it "byooduh".

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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