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In addition to DUIs and ownership of Zubaz pants, Wisconsin has to lead the nation in confusing place names. This is probably because many of them are Native American or French or something else as confusing to pronounce as possible.
Quickly now! How many of you non-Cheeselandialanders can correctly pronounce the following?
Wauwatosa
Mequon
Oconomowoc
Mukwonago
Kinnickinnic (a river, not a town. As far as I know)
Lac du Flambeau
Shawano
Viroqua
Baraboo
Manitowoc
Cudahy
Mondovi
Neenah
Menasha
Weyauwega
Kaukauna
Waupaca
Some of these may seem really easy, but you'd be amazed how many people pronounce a vowel wrong, or put an emphasis on the wrong syllable.Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.
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Reminds me of a story a teacher of mine once told about a student in one of his classes. Her last name was "Jamarillo." When he pronounced it in the proper Spanish way ("Ha-ma-REE-yo"), she said it was "JAM-a-rill-oh." When he got upset, she explained, "Nobody ever gets it right, so I stopped trying to correct them." So he made a point of, every day he did the attendance check, pronouncing it the 'right' way.PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.
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Tchoupitoulas=Cho-puh-TOE-luh?
CHAP-uh-TOO-luss. Don't ask me why
Des Allemands=Duh Ah-luh-MON
Closer than I expected ^_^ deh-SAHL-uh-munz
Thibodeaux=TIH-boh-doh
ding!
Clio=CLEE-oh
see-ell-ten. Picture how the word looks in all caps on a street sign...and weep for our cultcha.
Terpsichore=Terps-UH-Shore?
TERP-sih-kor (and yes, Chromatix has the real-world pronunciation correct, I was going for local dialect)
Orion=Oh-RYE-un
ding! Alternatively, OH-ree-awn. Exactly 50% of the people I know say it one way, 50% say it the other.
enjoy=AHN-zho
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I subjected you guys to my nonsense, so now it's my turn to suffer. Fair is fair ^_^ Here are my best guesses:
Mantua (have fun) - MAN-tyuu-uh
Toelle - Teel?
Hurricane - If it was said the same way as the real word, I don't think you would have included it 8p ... so, HURR-ih-kunn
Hyrum - HAI-rum
Lehi - LEE-hi
Tremonton - TREM-un-tun
Roosevelt - roo-z'-velt? (first syl-LA-ble rhyming with zoo)
Duchesne - dew-KANE
Wauwatosa - WAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH ORC!....er, wau-wah-toh-suh (1st syllable as in caught)
Mequon - MEE-kon
Oconomowoc - oh-koh-no-mo=wok
Mukwonago = mook-woh-na-goh
Kinnickinnic (a river, not a town. As far as I know) - kih-nih-kih-nik
Lac du Flambeau - lahk-du-flahm-boh (3rd syl as in jam)(the word flambeaux still looks odd to me without an X on the end)
Shawano - sha-WAHH-no
Viroqua - VEE-ro-ka
Baraboo - baa-run-boo (1st syllable as in Barry)
Manitowoc - Mah-nih-toh-wok
Cudahy - kud-ih-hee
Mondovi - mohn-dah-vee
Neenah - nay-nuh
Menasha - mee-nah-sha
Weyauwega - wah-yaw-way-ga
Kaukauna - kaw-kaw-nuh
Waupaca -wauuughwau-pa-ka (1st syllable as in caught)"For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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Quoth EricKei View Post
Wauwatosa - WAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH ORC!....er, wau-wah-toh-suh (1st syllable as in caught)
Mequon - MEE-kon
Oconomowoc - oh-koh-no-mo=wok
Mukwonago = mook-woh-na-goh
Kinnickinnic (a river, not a town. As far as I know) - kih-nih-kih-nik
Lac du Flambeau - lahk-du-flahm-boh (3rd syl as in jam)(the word flambeaux still looks odd to me without an X on the end)
Shawano - sha-WAHH-no
Viroqua - VEE-ro-ka
Baraboo - baa-run-boo (1st syllable as in Barry)
Manitowoc - Mah-nih-toh-wok
Cudahy - kud-ih-hee
Mondovi - mohn-dah-vee
Neenah - nay-nuh
Menasha - mee-nah-sha
Weyauwega - wah-yaw-way-ga
Kaukauna - kaw-kaw-nuh
Waupaca -wauuughwau-pa-ka (1st syllable as in caught)
Wauwatosa=I think you've got this one pretty much right.
Mequon= MEHK-won
Oconomowoc=pretty much right
Mukwonago=Muck-WAHN-a-go
Kinnickinnc=yeah, pretty much. KIN-ick-KIN-ick. Some people say kin-ICK-kin-ICK instead. This is wrong. To sound like a local just call it the KK River.
Lac du Flambeau=lack-du-FLAM-bo
Shawano= SHAW-no. The second a is silent.
Viroqua= vir-O-kwa. But I've also heard vir-AH-kwa
Baraboo= correct
Manitowoc= MAN-it-to-wock
Cudahy= cud-a-hay
Mondovi= mun-da-vee
Neenah= NEE-nuh
Menasha= men-A (as in 'ash')-sha
Weyauwega= WHY-a-WEEG-a
Kaukauna= correct
Waupaca=wau-PACK-aKnowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.
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People can pronounce "Albuquerque", they just can't spell it.
My street name gets butchered all the time, Calle Cuervo.
Quoth Exaspera View PostNot really a bad earworm, though. Better than "It's a Small World." Just sayin'.Quoth RetailWorkhorse View PostWith yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there....
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Quoth Treasure View PostIts pronounced "AWS-TIN". It doesn't matter how they say it in other places
Quoth Treasure View PostDON'T pronounce the "E" at the end of Guadalupe. It's "Gwada-LOOP" and we like it that way!!
Quoth infinitemonkies View PostI once made a drive-through customer say "quesadilla" (case-ah-dee-ya) over and over again until he got it right.
Quoth smileyeagle1021 View PostBangerter is pronounced Bang Et Er, I know, we left out an 'r' deal with it.
Quoth AccountingDrone View PostThen there is Chili NY, Chi-lye, not chili as in the food
Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View PostIn addition to DUIs and ownership of Zubaz pants, Wisconsin has to lead the nation in confusing place names. This is probably because many of them are Native American or French
To'Hajiilee - used to be Cañoncito, but there was a campaign by the high school kids there to change it to a Diné name instead.
Pojoaque - Spanish
Mogollon - Spanish
Ohkay Owingeh - Tewa (this shouldn't give people problems, it's pronounce just like it looks, but it does)
Te Tesugeh Oweengeh - Tewa and it's Spanish variation of TesuqueIt's floating wicker propelled by fire!
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Quoth EricKei View PostDes Allemands=Duh Ah-luh-MON
Closer than I expected ^_^ deh-SAHL-uh-munz
Thibodeaux=TIH-boh-doh
ding!
Clio=CLEE-oh
see-ell-ten. Picture how the word looks in all caps on a street sign...and weep for our cultcha.
Terpsichore=Terps-UH-Shore?
TERP-sih-kor
Orion=Oh-RYE-un
ding! Alternatively, OH-ree-awn. Exactly 50% of the people I know say it one way, 50% say it the other.
Although I'm sure I must have seen that word sometime during my school years, (whatever astronomy type learning we had), the first time I really recall seeing it, was around 30 years ago, as a company's name, on the side of their building.
My initial guess on the pronounciation of it back then, was the alternate you mention.
Hopefully in the next few days, I'll find the time to put up some from my State.
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Quoth EricKei View Post
I subjected you guys to my nonsense, so now it's my turn to suffer. Fair is fair ^_^ Here are my best guesses:
Mantua (have fun) - MAN-tyuu-uh
Man-ah-way
Toelle - Teel?
to-will-ah
Hurricane - If it was said the same way as the real word, I don't think you would have included it 8p ... so, HURR-ih-kunn
that one's actually right
Hyrum - HAI-rum
ditto
Lehi - LEE-hi
that one is right too
Tremonton - TREM-un-tun
tree-mon-ton
Roosevelt - roo-z'-velt? (first syl-LA-ble rhyming with zoo)
yup, that's it
Duchesne - dew-KANE
dew-shaneIf you wish to find meaning, listen to the music not the song
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Quoth JustaCashier View PostI've heard that name enough before as a person's last name, (I want to say from a movie, or TV show), that I was fairly certain I was right. But, I was actually flipping between that and Tih-buh-doh. So, yeah, I sat here and said both outloud several times!
Quoth Mr Hero View PostA-L-B-U-R-querqueLast edited by Pagan; 07-26-2010, 02:28 AM.It's floating wicker propelled by fire!
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Quoth EvilEmpryss View PostDo 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").
Of course, we have places like Duquesne and North Versailles around here to deal with. Then there's Monongahela, Carnegie, Chartiers, etc.Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari
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Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View PostKinnickinnc=yeah, pretty much. KIN-ick-KIN-ick. Some people say kin-ICK-kin-ICK instead. This is wrong. To sound like a local just call it the KK River.) that I've heard kin-ICK-kin-ICK before. I don't suppose that you're six nations down there? That would imply that there's likely something with similiar names up here, and could just be a regional variation in the Anglicisation.
As for the written version of the pronunciations, am I the only person on the board who speaks French badly enough that sometimes both of the presented spellings look like a good way to represent the pronunciation of the French place names? I know my vowels are bad (not helped by having mostly Quebecois teachers, when curriculum is for international French), but I didn't think they were that bad...
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