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-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.
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.