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TIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas" (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Ohio is great for shit pronunciations of town names.

Bellfountaine - bell FOUN'n (the t drops there in most dialects, some would say 'fountain' with the the first syllable stressed).

Versailles - verSAILS

Medina - muhDYEnuh

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

We have "verSAILS" in Indiana too. Also:

Peru - Pee-roo

Russiaville - Roosha-vil

Lebanon - Leb'nun

My favorite though is that there are two spellings for the Wabash river: Wabash and Ouabache. And despite being in a town that is on the Wabash River, the local Oabache Elementary School is pronounced: Wah-bat-shee.

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[–] emmeram@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

The pronunciation of Lebanon you called out may sound like it came from a hayseed, but it’s closer to the way people in the country of Lebanon pronounce it than the mainstream American pronunciation.

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[–] hate2bme@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Right down the road from Versailles is the town I grew up in and the movie Hoosiers is based off of. Milan (pronounced my - lan)

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 2 years ago

I think y'all also have KAY-row (Cairo) if I remember right. (or maybe that's Illinois?)

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[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

There's a Miami, Oklahoma. Pronounced, "My-am-uh"

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[–] victory@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

My extended family is from a tiny Ohio hill town named Antioch, pronounced "annie-OCK".

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 point 2 years ago

I've been there a couple of times. I say the 't' in anti, but I guess the locals don't

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[–] emmeram@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

I submit: Gallipolis, Ohio.

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

or rio grande (rye-oh grand).

I'm not sure how Gallipolis should actually be pronounced. The ~polis suffix seems sensible enough, but not sure on the first part.

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[–] emmeram@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

I’ve heard people pronounce it as “galli-PO-lease”

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

I would say the Ohio version gal-uh-puh-LISS and I think that's how people I knew from there said it, but it's been a couple decades, heh.

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[–] emmeram@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago

Your stylization is more correct than mine.

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