The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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JASOH1 said:
Yes, and some Cajuns as well. My aunt in Port Arthur was married to a Cajun from Louisiana, and his side of the family spoke Cajun French (I am sure some French people would have a hard time understanding them since much of it is very different) and would often mix a sentence with broken English and French. It was pretty hard to decipher much of the time, and though my cousins could understand them, I never could. Even my aunt had a hard time with it. My uncle had pretty good English because he was a riverboat captain and had to communicate with people who weren't Cajun, LOL.
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Yes, Cajun French is quite different from French in France. It is like Yiddish for Orthodox Jews in NYC... it is their own thing.

CD
 
One local town here we have is Lebanon, which outsiders pronounce like the Middle East country, but locally, it's pronounced "Leb'nin," the last syllable rhyming with "tin."

New Prague, in Minnesota, named after the Czech city, is pronounced "New Praygue."
 
There is a Louisville, KY and a Louisville, OH. In KY the "s" is silent. In Ohio it's pronounced the way it looks. There are lots and lots of cities all over the US that have a different pronunciation than what one would think.
 
JASOH1 said:
There is a Louisville, KY and a Louisville, OH. In KY the "s" is silent. In Ohio it's pronounced the way it looks. There are lots and lots of cities all over the US that have a different pronunciation than what one would think.
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Yeah, there are loads - Cairo, on the Mississippi, is pronounced KAY-row, Du Bois, PA is Doo-boys, Fayetteville, NC is locally pronounced Fed-vuhl, Lancaster, PA is LANE-custer, Lewes in Delaware is Lewis, and Houston on the east coast (like in NY and Delaware) is said as House-ton, not Hue-ston, as in TX.
 
TastyReuben said:
Yeah, there are loads - Cairo, on the Mississippi, is pronounced KAY-row, Du Bois, PA is Doo-boys, Fayetteville, NC is locally pronounced Fed-vuhl, Lancaster, PA is LANE-custer, Lewes in Delaware is Lewis, and Houston on the east coast (like in NY and Delaware) is said as House-ton, not Hue-ston, as in TX.
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You are thinking of Houston Street in NYC. Yes, it is pronounced like House-ton.

CD
 
caseydog said:
I've heard some pretty extreme redneck, and a lot of other thick regional dialects. I've never been unable to understand them. Even Canadians. :laugh:

This woman at the petrol station absolutely stumped me.

It's kind of like the UK version of Jive...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzIcec_bQss


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I laughed at the original post about way cross the town. Yesterday I was watching the crime channel, about a murder in way cross, I laughed to myself. Georgia. Lol. One guy killed his cousin and nearly got away with it. The thrift murder. Small world huh??

Russ
 
rascal said:
I laughed at the original post about way cross the town. Yesterday I was watching the crime channel, about a murder in way cross, I laughed to myself. Georgia. Lol. One guy killed his cousin and nearly got away with it. The thrift murder. Small world huh??

Russ
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Georgia cousins... you can marry 'em, but ya' can't kill 'em.

CD
 
TastyReuben said:
Yeah, there are loads - Cairo, on the Mississippi, is pronounced KAY-row, Du Bois, PA is Doo-boys, Fayetteville, NC is locally pronounced Fed-vuhl, Lancaster, PA is LANE-custer, Lewes in Delaware is Lewis, and Houston on the east coast (like in NY and Delaware) is said as House-ton, not Hue-ston, as in TX.
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Are these pronunciations just local dialect, or are they the same across the States? One that I can think of near to me is Wilmslow, in Cheshire = the first "l" is silent, but only locals would know that. Further east (The Velvet Curtain's neck of the woods) they have a Belvoir that is pronounced "Beaver". My local town is Shrewsbury, pronounced "Shrowsbury". It used to be spelt "Shrowesbury" until a couple of hundred years ago when for some unknown reason the spelling was changed.
 
epicuric said:
Are these pronunciations just local dialect, or are they the same across the States? One that I can think of near to me is Wilmslow, in Cheshire = the first "l" is silent, but only locals would know that. Further east (The Velvet Curtain's neck of the woods) they have a Belvoir that is pronounced "Beaver". My local town is Shrewsbury, pronounced "Shrowsbury". It used to be spelt "Shrowesbury" until a couple of hundred years ago when for some unknown reason the spelling was changed.
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There's quite a lot of Scottish places that aren't pronounced as they look. Milngavie, west of Glasgow, is pronounced "Mill-guy". Culzean Castle is "Kullane" and Anstruther in Fife is "Anster." My nearest big town is Kirkcaldy, which is pronounced "Kir-coddy."

Then you have some Scottish surnames, especially those with a z (yep, that letter again). Menzies is "Ming-is", Dalziel is "Dee-yell" and then there is Inglis, which in Scotland is pronounced "In-gels".
 
caseydog said:
The Reading I know, Reading Pennsylvania, is pronounced "Redd-ing."

There are some towns in the US that are not pronounced as you would think. Sounth of me, there is Alvarado, Texas. One would thing the Spanish/Mexican pronunciation would be correct, but the correct is actually "al-vuh-ray-dough".

CD
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John Updike and Taylor Swift hail from that particular Reading, I discovered some time ago when discussing places of that name.

The English Reading has produced a few famous names. The musician Mike Oldfield, the comedian Ricky Gervais, the actor Kate Winslet and the historian (yes, her again) Lucy Worsley all come from Reading. Curiously enough, my friend Susie, who is also an historian, comes from Reading originally, though she has spent much of her life in the north-east of England. Adding to the coincidence, one of her oldest friends from her Reading days is also called Lucy, who is...another historian.
 
epicuric said:
Are these pronunciations just local dialect, or are they the same across the States? One that I can think of near to me is Wilmslow, in Cheshire = the first "l" is silent, but only locals would know that. Further east (The Velvet Curtain's neck of the woods) they have a Belvoir that is pronounced "Beaver". My local town is Shrewsbury, pronounced "Shrowsbury". It used to be spelt "Shrowesbury" until a couple of hundred years ago when for some unknown reason the spelling was changed.
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These names are local. Most Mercan towns named after old Yurripean cities are pronounced as per original. But, and as you mentioned with some British towns, some towns here have unexpected pronunciations.

CD
 
There is a town not far from me called Versailles. But it's pronounced Ver-say-elles. I have no comment about why that might be.
 
epicuric said:
Are these pronunciations just local dialect, or are they the same across the States? One that I can think of near to me is Wilmslow, in Cheshire = the first "l" is silent, but only locals would know that. Further east (The Velvet Curtain's neck of the woods) they have a Belvoir that is pronounced "Beaver". My local town is Shrewsbury, pronounced "Shrowsbury". It used to be spelt "Shrowesbury" until a couple of hundred years ago when for some unknown reason the spelling was changed.
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My cousin married a guy called bob Cockburn. He said it was cobern, I always called him by the way I read it. He never liked me. Lol. Boring guy btw who wore a toupee.

Russ
 
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