Wacka Posted March 5, 2022 Posted March 5, 2022 Worked at a Denny's in college and laughed at people trying to pronounce Scajaquada. After several attempts we said "you mean the 198 right?" 2 Quote
Just Jack Posted March 6, 2022 Posted March 6, 2022 North of me is Pulaski, NY. The correct polish pronunciation is pull-as-ski. They pronounce it pull-as-sky. Quote
ICanSleepWhenI'mDead Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 Surprised nobody offered this one yet - - Locals pronounce New Orleans, LA as Naw-lins, which is about as far away as possible from the non-Cajun way I pronounced it growing up in WNY. Quote
Saxum Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 On 3/5/2022 at 11:53 AM, Pete said: There was a plane crash in Mianus bridge(on 95). Howard Stern when he was in NYC called ticket office and asked how much a one way ticket from la guardia to my anus cost lol Expand I am sure he got a bulk rate. I went to UB and could not understand where some people in dorms were from. Lots of variations on Lon G'Island (Long Island) I picked up unintentional and tried to order a Lon G'Island and he had no idea what I was talking about. Quote
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 On 3/6/2022 at 10:33 PM, Just Jack said: North of me is Pulaski, NY. The correct polish pronunciation is pull-as-ski. They pronounce it pull-as-sky. Expand Tomorrow (first Monday of March) is Casimir Pulaski Day in Chicago. City Holiday, kids get school off. A true American hero! Anyway... That's the "hick element" and long vowels. Here: Cairo, Illinois is: KAY-ro. /smdh... Quote
Chef Jim Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 My wife makes fun of how we pronounce: Begen Chili Java Quote
SoTier Posted March 7, 2022 Author Posted March 7, 2022 On 3/7/2022 at 3:33 AM, Chef Jim said: My wife makes fun of how we pronounce: Begen Chili Java Expand Nobody in WNY lives in Java but in JAY-va. I always thought that Long Islanders pronounced their area as Lon-GUY-land. Point Gratiot in Dunkirk is pronounced locally as "GRAT-IT". I think the correct French pronunciation is GRAT-oh. Au Sable, NY -- the Chasm, Forks, and the village/town -- is pronounced locally as oh-SAY-bull. It should be oh-SAHB-luh. Skaneateles and Scajacquada are some of those place names that only locals can say. I've always put Snowqualmie in that same group. Quote
The Poojer Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 In the Virgina version it's pronounced Pyule-ass-key On 3/6/2022 at 10:33 PM, Just Jack said: North of me is Pulaski, NY. The correct polish pronunciation is pull-as-ski. They pronounce it pull-as-sky. Expand Quote
Wacka Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 (edited) On 3/7/2022 at 1:41 AM, Limeaid said: I am sure he got a bulk rate. I went to UB and could not understand where some people in dorms were from. Lots of variations on Lon G'Island (Long Island) I picked up unintentional and tried to order a Lon G'Island and he had no idea what I was talking about. Expand When I was at UB decades ago, a girl was wearing her boyfriend's Grand Island (Pork Chop Island) HS letterman's jacket. A lunch of Lon Guylanders were talking about what town they were from. She, wearing the jacket, says that she is from the Island too.They asked Massapequa? Islip? where? She replied " This is WNY, not NYC . Grand Island you idiots." Edited March 7, 2022 by Wacka 1 Quote
Draconator Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 There was a bar in Buffalo on Arkansas St, called the Arkansas. Yet they insisted they pronounce the name of the bar R-KAN-SAS. Quote
SoTier Posted March 7, 2022 Author Posted March 7, 2022 On 3/7/2022 at 2:48 PM, Draconator said: There was a bar in Buffalo on Arkansas St, called the Arkansas. Yet they insisted they pronounce the name of the bar R-KAN-SAS. Expand I think that used to be a common local pronunciation of Arkansas in the Midwest when I lived there. I don't know if that's still the case. Some Midwesterners and Westerners change the endings of place names when the names end in vowels: the Absaroka Range in Montana/Wyoming often becomes AB-sa-ro-key while the last syllable in Missouri becomes "uh" instead of "ee". Quote
Toomstone.Part.Duex Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 On 3/5/2022 at 12:21 AM, That's No Moon said: Hockessin, DE HO-kessin Newark, DE new-ARK Versailles, PA ver-SAILS Pequea Valley, PA PECK-way Wilkes-Barre, PA BARE-ee Expand I was going to put Wilkes-Barre. I work in WB and people from out of state never say it right. Most say Wilkes-BAR Quote
Gugny Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 On 3/6/2022 at 10:33 PM, Just Jack said: North of me is Pulaski, NY. The correct polish pronunciation is pull-as-ski. They pronounce it pull-as-sky. Expand There is a road in a neighboring town (Fort Ann, NY) named Tripoli Road. Pronounced, "try-POLE-ee." Quote
coloradobillsfan Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 (edited) Buena Vista, Colorado ruffles a lot of feathers here since the town voted to pronounce their name "BEYOO-NA VIS-TA" instead of the traditional Spanish pronunciation. Edited March 7, 2022 by coloradobillsfan Quote
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 On 3/7/2022 at 6:39 PM, Gugny said: There is a road in a neighboring town (Fort Ann, NY) named Tripoli Road. Pronounced, "try-POLE-ee." Expand WTF! That's how they'd pronounce it in Midwest! You simply can't take the country out of folk. San Jose gets: San Josie! Shaking my head in disbelief... Bourbonnais, Illinois gets: Burr-BONE-us. Joliet gets: JOLLY-ette. WHICH, is probably closest to the original (I am assuming) French: Joelie-aye?? Quote
That's No Moon Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 On 3/7/2022 at 8:15 PM, ExiledInIllinois said: WTF! That's how they'd pronounce it in Midwest! You simply can't take the country out of folk. San Jose gets: San Josie! Shaking my head in disbelief... Bourbonnais, Illinois gets: Burr-BONE-us. Joliet gets: JOLLY-ette. WHICH, is probably closest to the original (I am assuming) French: Joelie-aye?? Expand I'd go with ZHO-li-ay given that J in French usually is more like a Z 2 Quote
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 BUT! Joliet... I think was going to be corrupted to "Juliet"... Situated next to Romeoville and there were going to be "Twin Cities?" ?? Man... Things change? I always thought it was the explorer, Louis Jolliet. Hence the "Jolly" thing? Anyway... We are built on a very illiterate and corrupted English country. 😆 Quote
That's No Moon Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 On 3/7/2022 at 5:56 PM, Toomstone.Part.Duex said: I was going to put Wilkes-Barre. I work in WB and people from out of state never say it right. Most say Wilkes-BAR Expand I have family in Nanticoke so I've been there many times. 1 Quote
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 On 3/7/2022 at 8:21 PM, That's No Moon said: I'd go with ZHO-li-ay given that J in French usually is more like a Z Expand ANY you slice it... It's a clustereff and true bastardization. Louis Jolliet is 2 "L's"... Quote
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