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[Teleguy61]

Calais, ME, too.

Yep.
Also try this one:
Charlotte VT

 

[Rocky]

It was two syllables when I was there decades ago "chi lie" rhyming with some pronunciations of "jai alai"

Thanks. Didn't mean to imply three sylables, just that my phonetic skills were lacking to get the proper long-I sound.

 

[adorshki]

Now, can we get back to important guitar stuff?

OK.

Is it MAR-ten or Mar-TEEN?
Grech or Gretsk?
Lah-ree-vay or Larvae?
Fender or G&L?

 

[walrus]

I, too, hail from MA, right next to Worcester.

How about the real name of Webster Lake? Good luck.

"Lake Chaubunagungamaug"

walrus

 

[adorshki]

I, too, hail from MA, right next to Worcester.

How about the real name of Webster Lake? Good luck.

"Lake Chaubunagungamaug"

walrus

The last words of the first person to drown in it.

 

[chazmo]

Newark DE isn't pronounced like Newark NJ, it's "New Ark".
Versailles KY isn't pronounced like Versailles France, it's "Ver Sails".

In both cases, the locals will correct you immediately!

And then there are all the native American names on Long Island.

Oh, here's one, Sandy... In the Bay Area, there's a town called Albany. It's pronounced "al-bunny" not "awl-bunny". I have no idea why. Clearly the Californians are wrong.

 

[twocorgis]

Oh, here's one, Sandy... In the Bay Area, there's a town called Albany. It's pronounced "al-bunny" not "awl-bunny". I have no idea why. Clearly the Californians are wrong.

Clearly!

 

[Bill Ashton]

I, too, hail from MA, right next to Worcester.

How about the real name of Webster Lake? Good luck.

"Lake Chaubunagungamaug"

walrus

"You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side, and we'll both fish in the middle," or so I have heard...

 

[Opsimath]

Oh, here's one, Sandy... In the Bay Area, there's a town called Albany. It's pronounced "al-bunny" not "awl-bunny". I have no idea why. Clearly the Californians are wrong.

There is an Albany, Georgia I've heard pronounced "awl-benny". But not everyone says it that way.

 

[adorshki]

Oh, here's one, Sandy... In the Bay Area, there's a town called Albany. It's pronounced "al-bunny" not "awl-bunny". I have no idea why. Clearly the Californians are wrong.

Dang. Busted again. Let's not talk about Davenport. Or Aromas.

And what the hell is a Milpita that they named the town Milpitas after a bunch of 'em ?

 

[adorshki]

"You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side, and we'll both fish in the middle," or so I have heard...

Dang. Them injuns was a lot more civilized'n we give 'em credit for. Which one do you think fell out of his canoe first?

 

[fronobulax]

Oh, here's one, Sandy... In the Bay Area, there's a town called Albany. It's pronounced "al-bunny" not "awl-bunny". I have no idea why. Clearly the Californians are wrong.

Robert Fulton was sailing his steamboat up the Hudson River. One of his crew members, Benny, was shoveling coal. Fulton saw something on the bank that he wanted to investigate and wanted the boat to stop. So he yelled out "That's all Benny" and thus the place was named.

 

[Teleguy61]

I, too, hail from MA, right next to Worcester.

How about the real name of Webster Lake? Good luck.

"Lake Chaubunagungamaug"

walrus

My understanding is that it Lake Chogagogmanchogagogchabunagungamaug.

 

[walrus]

My understanding is that it Lake Chogagogmanchogagogchabunagungamaug.

I stand corrected!



walrus

 

[Ross]

Many place names here are Indigenous, mispronounced & misspelled by English- and French-speaking settlers:
Canada, Ottawa, Toronto, Quebec, Ontario, Winnipeg, etc, etc.

 

[adorshki]

I, too, hail from MA...

I think most of us hailed from our ma's.

I stand corrected!



walrus

Took 'im a long time to go under.

 

[HeyMikey]

Out my way it’s pronounced Burrrrln’ not Ber-lynn. Its not Wor-kester or Wor-chester, but Wooster, Woostah, Wister, or Wistah will get you in the door.

 

[Bill Ashton]

While I might describe the pronunciation of this small town differently...perhaps BRRR-lin...you guys get the idea, just not the same as our @krysh 's capital

Now, having lived in this area for nearly 70 years, I really don't know where this "Woo" stuff for Worcester comes from...that said, the AAA baseball team the city stole from Pawtucket, Rhode Island is refered to as the "Woo-Sox," so apparently I have been embarassingly out of touch...I have heard the city described as Worm-town, and I think there is even a local advertising-paper that uses that moniker...

 

[Harp Tail]

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)

 

[Teleguy61]

While I might describe the pronunciation of this small town differently...perhaps BRRR-lin...you guys get the idea, just not the same as our @krysh 's capital

Now, having lived in this area for nearly 70 years, I really don't know where this "Woo" stuff for Worcester comes from...that said, the AAA baseball team the city stole from Pawtucket, Rhode Island is refered to as the "Woo-Sox," so apparently I have been embarassingly out of touch...I have heard the city described as Worm-town, and I think there is even a local advertising-paper that uses that moniker...

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.