The hottest spot north of (um how do you pronounce that?)

[infinitemonkies]

When I was doing forced labor at Taco Bell ( I was working at a pizza hut owned by the same guy who occasionally forced staff of one to cover shortages at the other) I once made a drive-through customer say "quesadilla" (case-ah-dee-ya) over and over again until he got it right. I think it took 4 tries, with me correcting him each time. Then I gave it to him for free for being a good sport about it.





My understanding it that Austin is the unofficial capital of weird people the way San Francisco is for gay people.
I'm also told Austin has the world's largest urban bat population, (at times blotting out the sky as they emerge at dusk, or so I've heard)
I suspect the two facts are related, though I haven't quite worked out how yet.

[Treasure]

Yes we have the largest Mexican Free tail bat population (or something like that) they nest? under the south congress bridge, and yes they can black out the sky when they go flying out....

an no Austin is not the capitol of weird people, we're the Live Music Capitol of the World!
Keep Austin Weird!

[Spork4pedro]

The name of my town is often mispronounced by those that don't live in the area. My town = Tulare as in "Two-lair-ee". Most outsiders believe it's "Two-lar" or "tuh-lar" or mispronounce our neighboring town Visalia ("Vi-sail-ya") by throwing a "z" in it like saying azalea (the flower) with a "V" Where the "z" comes from...no one knows...

[Mr Hero]

I once made a drive-through customer say "quesadilla" (case-ah-dee-ya) over and over again until he got it right. I think it took 4 tries, with me correcting him each time.

I am reminded of the grandmother in Napoleon Dynamite. "Make yourself a dang case-ah-dill-ah"

[EvilEmpryss]

Never mind that a certain Dodge dealer said their address about 52 times per commercial...we were all wrong

Do NOT trust how locals pronounce things on commercials! There're furniture stores here that insist that they sell bedroom suits (ahem, that's suites, pronounced like the word "sweet").

And about half the people who try to pronounce the name of the road I live on get it wrong. "X-burgh" is pronounced with an "urg", not a "borough". I do NOT get where people keep getting all the extra vowels from!

[Chromatix]

That's probably because "burg" (from German) and "borough" (from English) have the same root. Mind you, in England "borough" is usually shortened to "bro" - for example, Middlesborough is said as Middlesbro, the same way as Edinburgh. Some signs with limited space say M'boro'...

[EricKei]

I could be evil and post some of our city/town names just to see if you can pronounce them, but I'm too sweet and kind-- ...who am I kidding? Here goes

Tchoupitoulas

Des Allemands

Thibodeaux

Clio

Terpsichore

Orion

enjoy.

[JustaCashier]

Question marks behind the ones that are total guesses. Those without, I'm fairly certain of.....



Tchoupitoulas=Cho-puh-TOE-luh?

Des Allemands=Duh Ah-luh-MON

Thibodeaux=TIH-boh-doh

Clio=CLEE-oh

Terpsichore=Terps-UH-Shore?

Orion=Oh-RYE-un

enjoy=AHN-zho



Mike

[smileyeagle1021]

Reno has a few of those.
Kietzke, pronounced Kits Key (not Key ets key damnit)
Meadowood is really pronounced as two words, I don't give a shit that it's spelled as one.
And for the love of all things holy, Zolezzi is pronounced Zo Lez E , not Zol Ez Eh... we are NOT Canadians, kthxbye.

Now for Salt Lake's special roads
Bangerter is pronounced Bang Et Er, I know, we left out an 'r' deal with it.
I don't care what the street signs say, University Blvd can suck my dick, it's 4th South.
On that note, the grid system is only confusing if you are an idiot. The number indicates distance from zero and the compass rose name indicates direction from center. 100 units is 1/8 of a mile, so, therefore if the road you are on is 800 South, you are on a road that is 1 mile south of the zero line, if you are on 2400 West you are on a road that is 3 miles west of the zero line. The addresses use the exact same scheme. So, if you are given an address like 210 North 1950 West (the Utah Tax Commission), the building is .26 miles north of the zero line on a road 2.45 miles west of the zero line.

Oh, and town names, I'll let y'all have fun guessing the pronunciation.
Mantua (have fun)
Toelle
Hurricane
Hyrum
Lehi
Tremonton
Roosevelt
Duchesne

Best of luck

[Ben_Who]

See, in New England, Blanktown WOULD be pronounced "Blankton." In Mass, "Blankborough" would be pronounced "Blankbruh." Massachusetts has a Worcester (Wooster), Gloucester (Gluster), and Haverhill (Havrill), to name a few. And I think my roommate mentions Billerica as often as he does just to show off the fact that he knows how to pronounce it.

--Who?

[AccountingDrone]

Avon and Avon... Avon CT is long A-von, as in Stratford upon Aye-von

Avon Ny is softAvon, as in Ahhhh-von.

Then there is Chili NY, Chi-lye, not chili as in the food

[Chromatix]

Terpsichore = Terp-SIK-or-ee

I've seen it in some poetry that aimed to highlight some of the weirder areas of English spelling and pronunciation:

Say, expecting fraud and trickery:
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore.

http://www.madore.org/~david/misc/en...unciation.html

[AnqeiicDemise]

Kind of reminds me of this short interaction we over heard yesterday at a sushi restaurant.


G: And .. and.. I don't want my U-dawn noodles fried. I can't have fried food. I hate fried food.
W: "oo-don" (Udon) noodles are not fried sir. They are quite good, if I may say so.
G: Good 'cause I don't want no fried u-dawn noodles. And I want a crispy roll* but I want no meat on it and I don't want it fried. And I want extra veggies in my u-dawn soup.
W: So you want extra vegetables on your udon soup and a veggie roll?
G: No, no, not a veggie roll.. I want a CRISPY roll without meat and not fried.
L: and can we have some extra seed roe on the side?
W: Roe are fish eggs, m'am.
L: No, they're seeds.. little itty bitty seeds.. and I want extra on mine.

The waitress tried to be polite and correct their pronunciation subtly but they never caught on.

** Crispy roll is a SHRIMP sushi roll that gets covered in tempura and deep fried. e.e

[ExRetailDrone]

Kind of reminds me of this short interaction we over heard yesterday at a sushi restaurant.


G: And .. and.. I don't want my U-dawn noodles fried. I can't have fried food. I hate fried food.
W: "oo-don" (Udon) noodles are not fried sir. They are quite good, if I may say so.
G: Good 'cause I don't want no fried u-dawn noodles. And I want a crispy roll* but I want no meat on it and I don't want it fried. And I want extra veggies in my u-dawn soup.
W: So you want extra vegetables on your udon soup and a veggie roll?
G: No, no, not a veggie roll.. I want a CRISPY roll without meat and not fried.
L: and can we have some extra seed roe on the side?
W: Roe are fish eggs, m'am.
L: No, they're seeds.. little itty bitty seeds.. and I want extra on mine.

The waitress tried to be polite and correct their pronunciation subtly but they never caught on.

** Crispy roll is a SHRIMP sushi roll that gets covered in tempura and deep fried. e.e

Those idjits shouldn't have the privilege of enjoying delicious sushi when they have no idea what they are even EATING

[Exaspera]

Down Here:

Mexia-Mehaya
Bexar=Bayer