Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas"en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas"en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareNOT_RICK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoThere’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.
minus-squarewjrii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoThe 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!)
minus-squaresangriaferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoSee also: Lafayette (Le-FAY-it)
minus-squareninjabard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoTexas 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.
minus-squareflicker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoI’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.
minus-squareripcord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoAh yes. “Hoo-ston” and “How-ston” are definitely both things. “De-kab” and “De-kalb” Haven’t run into the Bowie one.
minus-squareninjabard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoIn 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.
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.
The little town in Texas is also “New Ark”.
Some of my other favorites:
Texas
Georgia
Canada (less experience here, tbf)
Arab, Alabama. (Ay-rab)
See also: Lafayette (Le-FAY-it)
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.
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.
Ah yes. “Hoo-ston” and “How-ston” are definitely both things.
“De-kab” and “De-kalb”
Haven’t run into the Bowie one.
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.