Why is Worcester pronounced Wooster? Or why do some people pronounce Oregon Oregin? And why does Coors beer always give me a headache?
How do you pronounce Hoppes?
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deadin
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Most anything with a French name is butchered in English...
Versailles, Des Moines, Chenois, Boise, Coeur d'Alene, etc....
Versailles, Des Moines, Chenois, Boise, Coeur d'Alene, etc....
With regard to the nut: a Pee-can is what you put under the bed at night. The nut is a pah-cahn.
There are an awful lot of deer,elk,cattle and beavers pissing in that stream on its way down to Golden,that’s why lol
Topsail Island?
Topsull
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Ivan the Butcher
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Those with more discriminating tastes can identify how much of each. It is always pronounces Coors! Those in the know, never say the word BEER when talking about Coors!
Ivan (The senior brew master of Harlem!)
crstrode
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Then, there are the aboriginal names here in my neck of the woods (the Pacific Northwest).
Kamiah
Puyallup
Humptulips
Cathlapotle
Coloquallum
Sequim
Nespelem
Quileute
Ahsahka
Picabo
Weippe
Acequia
Cocolalla
Kooskia
Matawa
Pend oreille
Kootenai
Etc, etc, etc, ad infinitum
Absalom
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Better not start on nautical terms. The pronunciations are weird without needing any French origin.
Forecastle = foxle
Absalom
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My old friend Frank (R.I.P.) was from Wooster, Ohio. Never having heard of the place, the first time he gave me his mailing address to write down over the phone, I actually wrote “Worcester”. Then he remembered that I was from Europe and added “Don’t spell that like the British”.
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I always assumed it was Hops, which I buy in gun shoppes.
How about Los Angeles? In old Dragnet and other shows, they said Loss Ang-gliss, now I hear Loss Ann-ge-less. But what do I know, I don't live there...
Pronounce this trip mine.
My MIL always called it "what's iss here sauce", now I find myself doing it.
Here's a local phenomena. We have a Charlotte, spelled Charlotte, but pronounced Shar-lot.
DeplorabusUnum
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I'm from Pittsburgh; don't EVEN ask me how to pronounce anything! Yinz got dat?
ancient-one
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I have called it Hops forever and it's way to late to make such a drastic change.
I'll still call it Hops..........Hop ease sounds kinda girly to me.
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