There’s a city (town) in Oklahoma called Miami. If you pronounce it as you would you’d be quickly and redneckedly corrected. It is pronounced “my am uh” as anyone with a shred of sophistication would already know.
(It’s actually a native word, but still, I like jokes. They hide the pain)
Not sure I understand the Madrid one, the way you spelled out the phonetics would lead me to pronounce it the correct way (to my European ears, talking about the OG Madrid).
In American English, Madrid Spain is like Mu-drid. Madrid Alabama is like Mad 'rd. It is like being Mad or angry. I didn’t see anyone pronouncing it like a local. These are places with a thick annoying southern accent. So it is typically said in a very annoying way with the emphasis strongly in the wrong place.
With Lafayette it is as annoying as possible like Lu as in Luck, FAY as in FAke, at as in hat. All three are like separate word syllables they are so disconnected in a southern redneck American draw.
Eh, frequently the second to last syllable has emphasis in English, and those are local names, so they probably should be pronounced as a local would. Madrid, Alabama is a different place than Madrid, Spain, so it’s reasonable for it to have a different pronunciation. Likewise for Lafayette.
Yeah I live in California and there’s a million cities that are not pronounced the way they are spelled. It’s like California has to be unique and everything. I live near a city called Lodi. (Low die) And another called ione (I own uh) then there’s my favorite, Los Banos which is ABSOLUTELY NOT SPANISH FOR TOILET! IT IS LOS BANE OHS!! Lol, it’s actually cool how different regions will mutilate similar words based on who the fuck knows what
Oh shit nice. I see your shit here all the time, that’s awesome. Since you’re from the area I live in Auburn. Even up here it’s too fucking hot right now! My ac went out Thursday and as I’m sure you know that was perfect timing… Bout to take my ass to Tahoe if it doesn’t get fixed soon and sleep in a hammock I swear.
Edit I realize Auburn isn’t close per se but I moved here recently from rancho Cordova which is actually pronounced as it should be lol
Big oof. Shit was pretty nice and then suddenly jumps to triple digits. I’m just glad my apartment has a pool. Walking my dogs the last couple days, I can practically feel my brain steaming inside my skull.
Right, my poor dog thinks we hate her all of a sudden because we walk every night but for the last 2 days with no ac we won’t even let her in our laps less yet go walk. Fortunately AC gets here tomorrow morning. 107° instantly after months of awesome weather is brutal. No time to acclimate, fuck you, you fucked the planet, deal with it.
Reminds me of that movie They Live… Mother nature’s a bitch, and she’s in heat
That movie is so great. Just shitty tag line after tag line delivered by America’s most prestigious thespian, Roddy Piper.
Buda -> “byou-duh” (byou as in beautiful) but NEVER “BooDah”. Occasionally you’ll hear “buttah”, but I’m sure those people are trolling
Bourne: Bernie
Bexar: Bear (Should be beHar, as in Harm, just like Texas is actually TeJas like the Ha in Hans of the Ja in Jalapeño)
D’Hanis: DaHennies, like “da pennies”
Weirdly most of the German places names are pronounced correctly, probably because they were founded by Germans who produced their names correctly for long enough that it stuck.
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There’s a city (town) in Oklahoma called Miami. If you pronounce it as you would you’d be quickly and redneckedly corrected. It is pronounced “my am uh” as anyone with a shred of sophistication would already know.
(It’s actually a native word, but still, I like jokes. They hide the pain)
Lafayette Georgia is “luh-FAY-et” and Madrid Alabama is “MAD-rid” because stupidity is standard practice where I’m from.
Not sure I understand the Madrid one, the way you spelled out the phonetics would lead me to pronounce it the correct way (to my European ears, talking about the OG Madrid).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4H4Lv1x2Qk
Random news broadcast has it pronounced in the first 30 seconds
Yep that’s pretty close to the Spanish pronunciation, except for the rolled R of course.
In French Lafayette is pronounced la-fa-yet, with flat As like in “cat”.
I’m french so take the first one with a grain of salt.
In American English, Madrid Spain is like Mu-drid. Madrid Alabama is like Mad 'rd. It is like being Mad or angry. I didn’t see anyone pronouncing it like a local. These are places with a thick annoying southern accent. So it is typically said in a very annoying way with the emphasis strongly in the wrong place.
With Lafayette it is as annoying as possible like Lu as in Luck, FAY as in FAke, at as in hat. All three are like separate word syllables they are so disconnected in a southern redneck American draw.
The fact that Kansas and Arkansas aren’t pronounced anywhere close to each other still bothers me.
These are all perfectly pronounceable when I speak like Arthur Morgan.
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If you don’t get the reference, he’s the main character in Red Dead Redemption 2, the best video game ever.
Eh, frequently the second to last syllable has emphasis in English, and those are local names, so they probably should be pronounced as a local would. Madrid, Alabama is a different place than Madrid, Spain, so it’s reasonable for it to have a different pronunciation. Likewise for Lafayette.
There’s a city in California called Van Nuys (pronounced like van eyes) and I very often hear it pronounced as it looks spelled (Van Newies).
Yeah I live in California and there’s a million cities that are not pronounced the way they are spelled. It’s like California has to be unique and everything. I live near a city called Lodi. (Low die) And another called ione (I own uh) then there’s my favorite, Los Banos which is ABSOLUTELY NOT SPANISH FOR TOILET! IT IS LOS BANE OHS!! Lol, it’s actually cool how different regions will mutilate similar words based on who the fuck knows what
Oh shit for real?! I’m from around there!
Oh shit nice. I see your shit here all the time, that’s awesome. Since you’re from the area I live in Auburn. Even up here it’s too fucking hot right now! My ac went out Thursday and as I’m sure you know that was perfect timing… Bout to take my ass to Tahoe if it doesn’t get fixed soon and sleep in a hammock I swear.
Edit I realize Auburn isn’t close per se but I moved here recently from rancho Cordova which is actually pronounced as it should be lol
Big oof. Shit was pretty nice and then suddenly jumps to triple digits. I’m just glad my apartment has a pool. Walking my dogs the last couple days, I can practically feel my brain steaming inside my skull.
Right, my poor dog thinks we hate her all of a sudden because we walk every night but for the last 2 days with no ac we won’t even let her in our laps less yet go walk. Fortunately AC gets here tomorrow morning. 107° instantly after months of awesome weather is brutal. No time to acclimate, fuck you, you fucked the planet, deal with it.
Reminds me of that movie They Live… Mother nature’s a bitch, and she’s in heat
That movie is so great. Just shitty tag line after tag line delivered by America’s most prestigious thespian, Roddy Piper.
NorCal lesgoo. My favorite town name is Manteca. Literally named a city “lard” in Spanish
Lol, I have 2 employees that live there. They will fuck you up if you mispronounce it
No shit, you’re from rancho? I grew up there! This is wild running into you on lemmy
my favorites from Texas:
Buda -> “byou-duh” (byou as in beautiful) but NEVER “BooDah”. Occasionally you’ll hear “buttah”, but I’m sure those people are trolling
Bourne: Bernie
Bexar: Bear (Should be beHar, as in Harm, just like Texas is actually TeJas like the Ha in Hans of the Ja in Jalapeño)
D’Hanis: DaHennies, like “da pennies”
Weirdly most of the German places names are pronounced correctly, probably because they were founded by Germans who produced their names correctly for long enough that it stuck.
Ohio has:
Versailles (ver-sails)
Bellefontaine (bell-fountain)
Gallipolis (gal-uh-police)
Russia (Roo-she)