TIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas"
TIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas"
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Ohio is great for shit pronunciations of town names.
Bellfountaine - bell FOUN'n (the t drops there in most dialects, some would say 'fountain' with the the first syllable stressed).
Versailles - verSAILS
Medina - muhDYEnuh
5 0 ReplyWe have "verSAILS" in Indiana too. Also:
Peru - Pee-roo
Russiaville - Roosha-vil
Lebanon - Leb'nun
My favorite though is that there are two spellings for the Wabash river: Wabash and Ouabache. And despite being in a town that is on the Wabash River, the local Oabache Elementary School is pronounced: Wah-bat-shee.
6 0 ReplyI think y'all also have KAY-row (Cairo) if I remember right. (or maybe that's Illinois?)
2 0 ReplyThe pronunciation of Lebanon you called out may sound like it came from a hayseed, but it’s closer to the way people in the country of Lebanon pronounce it than the mainstream American pronunciation.
2 0 ReplyRight down the road from Versailles is the town I grew up in and the movie Hoosiers is based off of. Milan (pronounced my - lan)
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There's a Miami, Oklahoma. Pronounced, "My-am-uh"
3 0 ReplyI submit: Gallipolis, Ohio.
1 0 Replyor rio grande (rye-oh grand).
I'm not sure how Gallipolis should actually be pronounced. The ~polis suffix seems sensible enough, but not sure on the first part.
1 0 ReplyI’ve heard people pronounce it as “galli-PO-lease”
1 0 ReplyI would say the Ohio version gal-uh-puh-LISS and I think that's how people I knew from there said it, but it's been a couple decades, heh.
1 0 ReplyYour stylization is more correct than mine.
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My extended family is from a tiny Ohio hill town named Antioch, pronounced "annie-OCK".
1 0 ReplyI've been there a couple of times. I say the 't' in anti, but I guess the locals don't
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