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[HeyMikey]

There is a craft brewer called Wormtown, and their products are quite good.
According to them, there was a DJ on a local station that started calling the city Wormtown on his show, and it got picked up.

I was just about to mention Wormtown brewery. I never knew that’s where the name came from.

 

[walrus]

There is a craft brewer called Wormtown, and their products are quite good.
According to them, there was a DJ on a local station that started calling the city Wormtown on his show, and it got picked up.

I was just about to mention Wormtown brewery. I never knew that’s where the name came from.

Right!

From Google: The moniker was bestowed upon the city by L.B. Worm, a locally famous disc jockey who coined the name in the late 1970's when rock 'n' roll was in it's punk heyday of green hair and pierced body parts. The Worcester punk scene was so lifeless that it made Mr. Worm think of death and worms--hence Wormtown.

walrus

 

[chazmo]

I stand corrected!



walrus

Oh, and did we mention that the name of this town is "webstuh?"

 

[twocorgis]

In NYC, no-one will take you seriously if you pronounce Houston Street "hjuː.stən" instead of "how..stan", and the same applies to Greenwich (grehn..ich locally)

But the town upstate near Saratoga is pronounced "Green Witch"

 

[Harp Tail]

Dumfries in Scotland is another one many mess up - hold the ketchup because it's meant to sound "Dohm..frees"

 

[Harp Tail]

But the town upstate near Saratoga is pronounced "Green Witch"

Thanks for letting us know. That means there are - depending on location - at least three different ways to pronounce Greenwich..

 

[twocorgis]

Dumfries in Scotland is another one many mess up - hold the ketchup because it's meant to sound "Dohm..frees"

And the town in the Borders (home base of slide player extraordinaire Paul Templeman) spelled "Hawick" is pronounced "Hoik".

 

[chazmo]

Oh, man, forget about Scottish and Welsh names. You're getting into language territory which simply cannot be navigated!

 

[GGJaguar]

Welsh names

They need to buy some vowels.

 

[fronobulax]

Dumfries in Scotland is another one many mess up - hold the ketchup because it's meant to sound "Dohm..frees"

Definitely Dumb frees in Northern Virginia.

 

[JerryR]

They need to buy some vowels.

They've got em, they just pronounce them differently. Y is used a lot but pronounced as U, U on the other hand is pronounced like a Y. Cymru, for example is pronounced Cumry. It's very simple

 

[Harp Tail]

They've got em, they just pronounce them differently. Y is used a lot but pronounced as U, U on the other hand is pronounced like a Y. Cymru, for example is pronounced Cumry. It's very simple

And super intuitive at the same time

 

[lungimsam]

1. “Ellikit city” is how the locals say “Ellicott City, in MD., not “Elli-cot”.
2. I don’t think anyone who was born and raised within a 20 mile radius of the inner harbor in Baltimore pronounces the “t” in the name Baltimore. Just variants like “Balamer” “Ballmer” and “Baldamore”.
3. Did anyone talk about Wilkes Barre, PA yet? I think it is like Wilks Berry. But not sure.

 

[Harp Tail]

I remember Westbury NY locally sounding more like "berry" than the way Canterbury or Bury St.Edmunds would be pronounced in the UK

 

[adorshki]

3. Did anyone talk about Wilkes Barre, PA yet? I think it is like Wilks Berry. But not sure.

It's named after the Wilky's Bar candy bar.

 

[Prince of Darkness]

11 Somerset place names that are a nightmare to pronounce

Even some Somerset natives have trouble with them

www.somersetlive.co.uk

 

[JerryR]

11 Somerset place names that are a nightmare to pronounce

Even some Somerset natives have trouble with them

www.somersetlive.co.uk

No probs with any of those. Going back to my starting post regarding Chippenham the pronunciation is probably nearer to chip num. I'm posting from there at the moment.

 

[fronobulax]

I say Wilks Bar.

What we call "bar" chords are actually "barre" chords so there is some precedent. I've not been corrected by locals when I was within 5 miles but maybe they were being especially polite?

 

[Rich Cohen]

Among the slaughtered names are French ones now pronounced by English speaking Americans in weird ways; such as Des Plaines, Illinois, Beloit, Wisconsin, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and my favoriate Botetourt County, Virginia, pronounced (let me try to spell it as pronounced): Bod-da-tot.

 

[chazmo]

I say Wilks Bar.

What we call "bar" chords are actually "barre" chords so there is some precedent. I've not been corrected by locals when I was within 5 miles but maybe they were being especially polite?

Me too. But the town of Barre in MA is pronounced "barry" Go figure!