We Tried to Pronounce Virginia Town Names

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  • Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
  • In the South, never judge a town name by the way it's spelled. These town names in Virginia are no exception.
    #itsasouthernthing

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  • @alexemmerich3152
    @alexemmerich3152 5 лет назад +557

    "It's Virginia there was probably a war everywhere." That guy is so right

    • @mrshowtime991
      @mrshowtime991 4 года назад +4

      😂😂😂😂

    • @komisar3937
      @komisar3937 4 года назад +18

      There was indeed a war everywhere in Virginia, even the part that aren't Virginia anymore.

    • @zoe972
      @zoe972 4 года назад

      yeah.

    • @TheDellaniOakes
      @TheDellaniOakes 4 года назад +4

      My daughter lives outside Suffolk, and has a small Confederate graveyard in her backyard.

    • @alexemmerich3152
      @alexemmerich3152 4 года назад +4

      @@TheDellaniOakes a... a confederate graveyard? praising the Confederates??????

  • @maddiepatton1696
    @maddiepatton1696 5 лет назад +1517

    Yes! Where my fellow Virginians at?😂🙌🏻

    • @rickallmightyjones6189
      @rickallmightyjones6189 5 лет назад +17

      Officially a Virtexan now, but Old Dominion Born

    • @thats109
      @thats109 5 лет назад +6

      Right here

    • @thats109
      @thats109 5 лет назад +10

      Born and raised

    • @slph97
      @slph97 5 лет назад +10

      Botetourt here 🤗

    • @lynneneese3745
      @lynneneese3745 5 лет назад +2

      @@slph97 I trust you got that one right.

  • @edmguy11
    @edmguy11 5 лет назад +578

    As someone who lives in VA, I had no idea of some towns, and was laughing at some pronunciations

    • @punishmint
      @punishmint 5 лет назад +9

      Ryan i was dead at Staunton

    • @red_galaxy_rose
      @red_galaxy_rose 5 лет назад +14

      Okay good so I wasn't the only person from VA. Who didn't know where some of them are. At least Ashland easy to say!😂

    • @cjc2009123
      @cjc2009123 5 лет назад

      Same here haha.

    • @amandahyre8613
      @amandahyre8613 5 лет назад

      Ryan I loved the confidence with which they approached Staunton. 🤣

    • @kdrama7115
      @kdrama7115 5 лет назад +1

      Same , I lived in va for 40 years and only heard of maybe 5 of those towns .... now I’m in Michigan...... 👍

  • @diverdean59
    @diverdean59 5 лет назад +714

    Powatan. Should be pronounced as Pow-a-tan

    • @tippy651
      @tippy651 5 лет назад +33

      That's what I said 😂

    • @Tinyrina97
      @Tinyrina97 5 лет назад +80

      Thank you! As someone from Powhatan, this is how it should actually be said.

    • @cactys3
      @cactys3 5 лет назад +7

      Lol, they said pow hate en

    • @alexoconnell9219
      @alexoconnell9219 5 лет назад +3

      Exactly

    • @kdrama7115
      @kdrama7115 5 лет назад +9

      Yes lived there from age 5-21 ... most all of the places I’ve never heard of ,maybe like 4 are familiar

  • @iankonitzer2272
    @iankonitzer2272 5 лет назад +375

    Its POW UH TAN, Pocahontas didn't die for this.

    • @Andy-qt4zz
      @Andy-qt4zz 5 лет назад +2

      his name isn’t even Powhatan :>

    • @danielaldebaran7888
      @danielaldebaran7888 5 лет назад +9

      @@Andy-qt4zz What I know that Pocahontas' dad was Powhatan Chief. Powhatan is the name of a tribe. He was just their chief.

    • @emilyd7634
      @emilyd7634 5 лет назад

      😂

    • @niyahgore2257
      @niyahgore2257 5 лет назад

      Ian Konitzer THANK U

    • @hammydammy123
      @hammydammy123 5 лет назад +1

      Andy exactly. If you’re from Virginia you would know.

  • @nightblade7409
    @nightblade7409 5 лет назад +137

    Don't feel bad, y'all! I'm FROM VA and I've never heard of half of those places! Bless y'all's hearts!!

    • @hokiejoe17
      @hokiejoe17 5 лет назад +1

      I knew Haysi, Pulaski, and Ararat.

    • @davidhardie6102
      @davidhardie6102 5 лет назад +1

      @@hokiejoe17 Staunton home of the Statler Brothers and birthplace of Woodrow Wilson. Alexa even says it wrong.

    • @hokiejoe17
      @hokiejoe17 5 лет назад

      @@davidhardie6102 Oh I knew Staunton too lol

    • @princeorion84
      @princeorion84 3 года назад

      I knew a few but I’m not from a county, so if it ain’t close or I haven’t heard it in conversation you can bet I can’t pronounce it

    • @abatall
      @abatall 2 дня назад

      i got buchanan crozet fauquier swoope and staunton even tho im from nova

  • @fjac
    @fjac 5 лет назад +673

    You screwed up by not having Norfolk on here.

    • @diamondsngunns88
      @diamondsngunns88 5 лет назад +3

      Frank Jackson 🤣🤣🤣💜💜💜💜

    • @lokate35
      @lokate35 5 лет назад +42

      That's what I said! (Posting from beautiful Naw-Fik, Virginia!)

    • @shattermyface
      @shattermyface 5 лет назад +52

      And Suffolk and Portsmouth. Locals lose their shit when you say them wrong!

    • @cvrator
      @cvrator 5 лет назад +13

      It's big enough that people know it. Plus, you can get away with norfuk or nawfuk... There's leeway.

    • @t900badbot
      @t900badbot 5 лет назад +29

      Here we don't cuss, nor drink, nor smoke, Norfolk!

  • @virginiagirl6628
    @virginiagirl6628 5 лет назад +437

    You know you're a Virginian when you know the correct pronunciation of Stann ton. 😂😂😂

  • @Scott_Gordon
    @Scott_Gordon 5 лет назад +366

    You failed on Powhatan. The H is silent. POW-ah-tan. (Kind of like saying Power Town). Living here more than 25 years.

    • @FeistyGinger145
      @FeistyGinger145 5 лет назад +13

      Was gonna comment about this. 37 years for me

    • @philipbarry3350
      @philipbarry3350 5 лет назад +20

      Scott Gordon yeah my wife and I grew up in Richmond and were thinking the same thing. Maybe the advice given on pronunciation was from someone from a certain part of the western region of Virginia?

    • @mackyronni
      @mackyronni 5 лет назад +14

      I cringed so hard

    • @deadpool5159
      @deadpool5159 5 лет назад +4

      I always heard both Pow-ah-tan and po-hat-on

    • @Tinyrina97
      @Tinyrina97 5 лет назад +10

      Thank You! I have lived in Powhatan 21 years and you can tell people are not from Powhatan when they say it wrong.

  • @tabitharobinson7987
    @tabitharobinson7987 5 лет назад +335

    everyone in Virginia says them all differently...don’t feel bad😂

    • @Kaytotty
      @Kaytotty 5 лет назад +5

      Omg yes

    • @erhswku
      @erhswku 5 лет назад +1

      West Virginia too!!!

    • @cactys3
      @cactys3 5 лет назад +11

      Lol, yea. Except for Powhatan, that one's ez. But somehow they pronounced it wrong in the vid and said it wuz right

    • @michaelwilliams2473
      @michaelwilliams2473 5 лет назад

      get out of here West Virginian before you get hurt

    • @gailoffenbacker8402
      @gailoffenbacker8402 5 лет назад

      Never a more accurate comment 😂

  • @amandahyre8613
    @amandahyre8613 5 лет назад +103

    I’m from VA and I’m severely disappointed that Bumpass wasn’t included. 🤣 I do appreciate that Staunton and Gloucester were there.

    • @jacobbelcher3512
      @jacobbelcher3512 5 лет назад +2

      I know. That would've been a good one to include. I feel like they'd've messed up Charlottesville too. There are a bunch more that would've given them trouble too.

    • @shepglennon8760
      @shepglennon8760 4 года назад

      How do you pronounce it? Bump-ass, Bum-Pass, Bumpiss?

    • @cassieredmond154
      @cassieredmond154 4 года назад +1

      @@shepglennon8760 pronounced bumpiss. I was also disappointed by its lack of inclusion lol.

    • @kimfox8109
      @kimfox8109 3 года назад +1

      I know right or Culpeper or my county Spotsylvania

    • @michaelforrest2046
      @michaelforrest2046 2 года назад +1

      Im a poquoson native. Try that one lol

  • @owenhaynes5968
    @owenhaynes5968 5 лет назад +187

    I live in Gloucester! Who else is from Virginia?

  • @AaronPeckCarpDime
    @AaronPeckCarpDime 5 лет назад +317

    I'm FROM Virginia and I'm pretty sure I only got about half of those right.

    • @Jiddy12345
      @Jiddy12345 5 лет назад

      same, 7/14

    • @eldergeek6077
      @eldergeek6077 5 лет назад +5

      Then you did better than I did. I grew up in Alexandria.

    • @lynneneese3745
      @lynneneese3745 5 лет назад +2

      I got 10 right but I live in SW Virginia which helped with a couple. Of course they got Powhatan wrong.

    • @cactys3
      @cactys3 5 лет назад

      Same, I got barely any bruh.

    • @my_names_bri5425
      @my_names_bri5425 5 лет назад +1

      I knew 2 but I’ve lived here all my life lol

  • @dawge30
    @dawge30 5 лет назад +45

    Thanks, y'all! Greetings from Joe, lived in Gloucester as a kid, have friends from Swoope, and live in Staunton, as of Memorial day weekend; 25 years!
    Y'all did good, LOVE this channel. Great fun for me, my wife; and my two boys.

    • @punishmint
      @punishmint 5 лет назад +1

      i don't know what boys are i only know what 🅱️oiz are

    • @arcinva
      @arcinva 5 лет назад +2

      Hello, fellow Stauntonians!

    • @cvrator
      @cvrator 5 лет назад

      I'm really sorry for you guys who live in Staunton.

    • @pookeywan
      @pookeywan 5 лет назад

      Fellow Stauntonian here!

  • @NixAnadoo
    @NixAnadoo 5 лет назад +70

    I grew up in Virginia. Not only is this hilariously accurate, but even most of us Virginia raised can't get all of these!

    • @jakemustian99
      @jakemustian99 2 месяца назад

      Its not acurate tho. They screwed up powhatan. Its pow-uh-tan

  • @scottsaylors1996
    @scottsaylors1996 5 лет назад +120

    I live near Powhatan and it’s Pow-A-Tan

  • @bkillerbw58
    @bkillerbw58 5 лет назад +57

    Hell yeah VA. Thanks from Winchester, VA

  • @h2ogurl1234
    @h2ogurl1234 5 лет назад +61

    Thank you for including us in a southern video!
    Y'all should've included norfolk since no one says it right

    • @kellycrites80
      @kellycrites80 5 лет назад +2

      I know right! I for sure thought they would've had Norfolk!

    • @ousmanedieng1382
      @ousmanedieng1382 5 лет назад +1

      Emma Nesbit I’m from somewhere near there and I can’t even pronounce it

    • @Hunty-pf2do
      @Hunty-pf2do 4 года назад

      I think I say Norf*ck
      (when i actually say Norfolk)

    • @DKWfrfr
      @DKWfrfr 4 года назад

      Yo I’m in Virginia Beach

    • @babagyoza
      @babagyoza 4 года назад +4

      I grew up in Norfolk, and say Nawh-fk. Though not a city, they should also try Powhite (Parkway), or Poquoson and Denbigh.

  • @aili03
    @aili03 5 лет назад +49

    I live in VA and I haven't even heard of half of these! 😂
    Greetings from Abingdon!

    • @In_time
      @In_time 5 лет назад +1

      “Aa-bing-don”? ✔️🤷🏼‍♀️ ❌

    • @aili03
      @aili03 5 лет назад

      @@In_time 😂😂😂😂
      Guess it's not really that hard to figure out.

    • @kellymontgomery9099
      @kellymontgomery9099 5 лет назад +1

      Aili McMurray I grew up in Abingdon.

    • @duanebrankley8984
      @duanebrankley8984 5 лет назад +4

      I love the town.. Trail Head of head of the Va Creeper, Barter theater, and of course that week long Arts & Crafts festival.

    • @hannahsheets9934
      @hannahsheets9934 5 лет назад +2

      I feel ya! From tazewell right here!

  • @camerona.3505
    @camerona.3505 5 лет назад +97

    When you live in Gloucester and start freaking out that your town got noticed😂

    • @savannahrae2370
      @savannahrae2370 5 лет назад +2

      LeopardLover 619 hey I live there too

    • @JSAC66
      @JSAC66 5 лет назад +1

      I have family there! Darlin’ little place not far off of 17. 😁

    • @alarion6
      @alarion6 5 лет назад +2

      Another GloCo resident here

    • @elijahlewis5555
      @elijahlewis5555 5 лет назад +4

      Yall are the big city compared to us near Kilmarnock. Gloucester got a chickfila and everything, haha

    • @shattermyface
      @shattermyface 5 лет назад +1

      I was chanting... I know this one!!
      And I can say Kilmarnok, too!
      I spent a lot of summers on the river!

  • @punishmint
    @punishmint 5 лет назад +32

    nice finally were considered a southern state. bless your heart from Harrisonburg Virginia

    • @littletoonproductions9202
      @littletoonproductions9202 5 лет назад

      Crystal_ Mint elkton here!

    • @cordeliachase5241
      @cordeliachase5241 5 лет назад +2

      Yay! Now that y'all have recognized Virginia as a southern state, maybe we'll get to participate in this year's Southern Games! Keep up the great work!

    • @cordeliachase5241
      @cordeliachase5241 5 лет назад +4

      PS....with names like Poquoson, Kecoughtan, Phoebus, Denbigh and Henrico, this game could go on forever!

    • @kevinashberry2939
      @kevinashberry2939 5 лет назад

      Crystal_ Mint ikr i hate being called northern state because we are super duper southern but in like richmond and williamsburg we are like city people

    • @kevinashberry2939
      @kevinashberry2939 5 лет назад

      Cordelia Chase and i cant believe we have a county above williamsburg called Jamaica XD

  • @jamesjeffries4408
    @jamesjeffries4408 5 лет назад +141

    Hey I live in Fauquier, and its not a town. It's a county. just sayin

    • @warriors2414
      @warriors2414 5 лет назад +1

      James Jeffries me too!!

    • @jamesjeffries4408
      @jamesjeffries4408 5 лет назад +9

      @Rachel Robb not sure. All i can say is i have lived here since 81 including 4 years at Fauquier High and everyone says fah-keer.

    • @luv2cook.
      @luv2cook. 5 лет назад +1

      Been living in Fauquier since 1988. Woot!

    • @riellymckinley8741
      @riellymckinley8741 5 лет назад

      Ery place on dis bih akkept fauqier kounty sweet as uh moe yuhhur

    • @xX_STARFALLER_Xx
      @xX_STARFALLER_Xx 5 лет назад +1

      I've always heard Fauquier pronounced like fall-queer or fawl-keer
      I don't know why but there is always an L in Fauquier whenever I hear someone say it

  • @samr3011
    @samr3011 5 лет назад +37

    You missed Poquoson on your list! These videos are so awesome ^^ I look forward to seeing what you'll find in each of the states!

    • @4knewt505
      @4knewt505 5 лет назад +2

      Yep! 757!

    • @amandawilson7555
      @amandawilson7555 5 лет назад

      Agreed!

    • @ussfreedom4422
      @ussfreedom4422 11 месяцев назад +1

      Pronounced: Pa-KOE-Sun / Poquoson ❤❤

    • @glennwilliamson3351
      @glennwilliamson3351 6 месяцев назад

      Should have included Buena Vista too. No it's not "bwayna vista". It's "byoona vista". A new news anchor on the Lynchburg TV station got laughed off the set when she said "bwayna" several years ago. Poor girl was from Illinois so I guess you couldn't fault her too badly.🙂

  • @4knewt505
    @4knewt505 5 лет назад +42

    757 and 804 representing! ROFL @ Gloucester and Powhatan! And don't forget the out of town pronunciation of Norfolk?

  • @sophiaskojec
    @sophiaskojec 5 лет назад +11

    Yay!! They eventually pronounced them correctly!! Thanks! ~A subscriber from Manassas

    • @soikiwa
      @soikiwa 4 года назад +1

      haha i was just waiting for them to call manassas just to make fun of the name, i just finished OHS T_T

  • @caroline317
    @caroline317 5 лет назад +35

    I knew Staunton would be on this list! Coming from the next town over

    • @emilypagan9410
      @emilypagan9410 5 лет назад +1

      I live close to Staunton lol

    • @southpaw1965
      @southpaw1965 5 лет назад

      Oh, are you from Buena Vista? Surprised they weren't on the list.

    • @caroline317
      @caroline317 5 лет назад

      Nope

    • @arcinva
      @arcinva 5 лет назад +2

      a.k.a. Waynesboro... LOL

    • @aceproffitt8315
      @aceproffitt8315 4 года назад +1

      I miss Staunton. Was born in Fishersville and lived in Staunton for a while. I miss going to the clock tower

  • @calmfulspider
    @calmfulspider 5 лет назад +48

    3:04 I've never heard anyone pronounce pulaski like that. people pronounce it more like pa-LASS-kee not pyoo.

    • @Meela234
      @Meela234 5 лет назад

      Thank you! Even on the news, they pronounce it pa-LASS-kee.

    • @bethshadid2087
      @bethshadid2087 5 лет назад +1

      I figured that's how it was pronounced because of fort Pulaski in Georgia.

    • @katiebolling474
      @katiebolling474 5 лет назад +15

      I grew up in Southwestern Virginia, and we call it Pyoo-Laski

    • @MaryofMayberry
      @MaryofMayberry 5 лет назад +1

      @@katiebolling474 you are right

    • @sixletters9759
      @sixletters9759 5 лет назад

      I used to live near Botetourt. I know how to properly pronounce Pulaski, pyoo.

  • @katherinepoindexter4380
    @katherinepoindexter4380 3 года назад +2

    current North Carolinian I was born on the Peninsula grew up on the Southside of Hampton Roads a.k.a the 757.

  • @CornHuskersguy
    @CornHuskersguy 5 лет назад +21

    I like how all the Virginian's are in the comment section correcting this video. 😂😂

  • @virginiagirl6628
    @virginiagirl6628 5 лет назад +38

    Finally, Virginia! Thank y'all!! ♥️♥️

  • @soccerchamp0511
    @soccerchamp0511 5 лет назад +21

    I love that y'all included the girl who said that Virginia isn't southern 😂🤣😂🤣 Are we southern enough for you now?

    • @whatchulookinatboa
      @whatchulookinatboa 4 года назад

      😂😂

    • @yuioyup
      @yuioyup Год назад +1

      Which video?

    • @ussfreedom4422
      @ussfreedom4422 11 месяцев назад +2

      lol 😂😂😂 right?? I think people forget that Virginia is the capital of the confederacy and confederate states. Without us, there wouldn’t be a south. Texas and Louisiana aren’t truth southerners lol they’re French and Mexican 😂

    • @soccerchamp0511
      @soccerchamp0511 11 месяцев назад

      @@ussfreedom4422 That is a really dumbass, ignorant comment. There was a south BEFORE the Confederacy. Virginia being southern doesn't have anything to do with the Confederacy. And what is your point about Texas and Louisiana exactly? Southerners can't also be French and Mexican? The south is very multicultural, and not just in Texas and Louisiana.

    • @soccerchamp0511
      @soccerchamp0511 11 месяцев назад

      @@yuioyup I don't remember the title. Just look up It's A Southern Thing ranks southern states or something like that.

  • @katharinemarshall1629
    @katharinemarshall1629 5 лет назад +32

    Y’all missed Rappahannock, Aquia, and Falmouth. Butched regularly by folks coming down I-95.

    • @limalicious
      @limalicious 5 лет назад +6

      Wait, is Rappahannock supposed to be a hard one?

    • @NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast
      @NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast 5 лет назад +1

      Katharine Marshall I’m in Aquia lol tons of people say a - quee - a it’s a - qwhy - a

    • @kimfox8109
      @kimfox8109 3 года назад

      Basically anything up and down i-95 in Virginia is a challenge for most LOL

    • @buckeye_8451
      @buckeye_8451 3 года назад

      @@limalicious It's like Rap-uh-hannock

    • @buckeye_8451
      @buckeye_8451 3 года назад

      @@limalicious Or if you're saying it fast, rap-hannock

  • @BubbaJ18
    @BubbaJ18 5 лет назад +62

    As a Virginian from Powhatan we don't pronounce it like that 2:46

    • @arrowheadgrant4026
      @arrowheadgrant4026 5 лет назад +3

      I live there too

    • @beaconnell
      @beaconnell 5 лет назад +3

      Bryan Lovell I choked on my sweet tea I was confused with that mispronunciation

  • @Hipposandgoats
    @Hipposandgoats 5 лет назад +8

    Been waiting on the VA edition! Surprised not to see Stanardsville though. (Loved seeing my hometown of Staunton)

  • @ChaosCourtney01
    @ChaosCourtney01 5 лет назад +7

    yesss this is one of my favorite youtube channels!! watching from Lynchburg, VA!

    • @YellowWhiteRose
      @YellowWhiteRose 5 лет назад +1

      i figured out city too easy, same with Amherst/Monroe/bedford

    • @Asdfghjkl-pb1ir
      @Asdfghjkl-pb1ir 5 лет назад +2

      I used to live in forest!! That’s a great area!

  • @peachyk33n79
    @peachyk33n79 5 лет назад +1

    Born in Staunton, I live near McGaheysville in Harrisonburg now, and my parents live in Swoope. This is funny

  • @claireevans7014
    @claireevans7014 5 лет назад +5

    Was not expecting to be so excited when Staunton and Crozet were featured haha! I lived right between them in Fishersville!

    • @arcinva
      @arcinva 5 лет назад +1

      What about Swoope?! I can't believe they found that tiny little speck of a place. :-D

  • @Ewimer21
    @Ewimer21 3 года назад +1

    I grew up 2 miles from Basye and near Staunton and McGaheysville

  • @Nosebluds
    @Nosebluds 5 лет назад +16

    Being from Powhatan, they still did not pronounce it right. If you live in Powhatan, VA it's actually pronounced the way the lady pronounces it at 2:44
    While it may be pronounced Poe-hot-an traditionally by native americans, that's not how to pronounce the county
    Nobody outside of the Powhatan/Cumberland/Richmond area ever pronounces it correctly

    • @SALEENS7GTR5
      @SALEENS7GTR5 5 лет назад +4

      Neighbors of RVA get it right, like Albemarle, because the schools often competed against Powhatan, Midlothian, etc. I too was confused when Pow-uh-tan wasn't right.

    • @eawatahatanguatama383
      @eawatahatanguatama383 2 года назад

      we never said it like poe-ha-tan

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 5 лет назад +6

    I’ve been to VA in 2010 for a boy scout jamboree at Fort AP Hill to celebrate 100 years old of scouting. It’s a nice state

  • @nightwolf2226
    @nightwolf2226 5 лет назад +6

    That was fun to watch. Powhatan resident, here. We all pronounce it Pow-ah-tan.

  • @SuzQ-fk5gn
    @SuzQ-fk5gn 5 лет назад +5

    I love being a Virginian and watching y’all! That was great :) welcome to Virginia y’all

  • @rachelc3535
    @rachelc3535 5 лет назад +28

    We definitely say Pow-uh-tan, not Po-hat-an. I've heard people not from other places say it differently, but never like y'all did. I've also never heard Pulaski pronounced the way y'all did it either. It's a short U as in up, not a long U.

    • @mrs.cracker4622
      @mrs.cracker4622 5 лет назад +2

      That's how I've heard Powhatan too. Thanks!
      🙂

    • @katiebolling474
      @katiebolling474 5 лет назад +5

      In Southwest Virginia everyone says Pyoo-Laski.

    • @blackwidow5228
      @blackwidow5228 4 года назад +1

      Yeah, they got a few of these wrong. Even if it's the original correct way to say something, over time it changes and people don't pronounce it that way anymore. Born and raised in Richmond and lived here my whole life!

  • @DarienVista
    @DarienVista 5 лет назад +7

    Condolences and Prayers to those that were affected because of the Memorial Day Weekend shooting in Virginia

  • @matthewbarge6988
    @matthewbarge6988 5 лет назад +13

    For the 17 years I have lived in Virginia, No one I have ever met has ever pronunced Powhatan correctly

  • @sunnyfix1372
    @sunnyfix1372 5 лет назад +49

    I want to die every time someone pronounces Staunton like that 🤢 but y'all forgot Raphine and Buena Vista!

    • @MarkFagerburg
      @MarkFagerburg 5 лет назад +8

      Would have liked to see them try Buena Vista too!

    • @kelseywilliams5893
      @kelseywilliams5893 5 лет назад +3

      Same. I'm from buena vista. Can we have a part 2?

    • @ArtGirlJan
      @ArtGirlJan 5 лет назад +2

      Sunny Fix i was waiting for Buena Vista too!

    • @ousmanedieng1382
      @ousmanedieng1382 5 лет назад +1

      Sunny Fix Norfolk, Palmyra, Louisa, Occoquan, Aquia, McLean, Galax, Suffolk, Machipongo, Chincoteague, Appomattox.
      You could make a whole other video of other towns that nobody can say. (Especially with McLean and Norfolk

    • @afton1955
      @afton1955 4 года назад

      They also forgot Monterey up in Highland County.

  • @desi1997-
    @desi1997- 5 лет назад +7

    I've lived in VA my whole life and I've only heard of Gloucester, Powhatan, and Staunton. I'd love to see how they would pronounce Portsmouth, Poquoson, and Seaford 😂

  • @MaryofMayberry
    @MaryofMayberry 5 лет назад +37

    Ahhhh Y'all left out Galax, Fries and Norfolk. 😊

    • @eldergeek6077
      @eldergeek6077 5 лет назад +1

      I guess they thought they would be too easy.

    • @janedoe5829
      @janedoe5829 5 лет назад +3

      Mary Mayberry gay-lax, frees.

    • @MaryofMayberry
      @MaryofMayberry 5 лет назад

      @@janedoe5829 Great and right!!

    • @lightwavz
      @lightwavz 5 лет назад +1

      But they really got PewLassKey right! Now let's head on over to RowNoke. All these folks puttin' too many syllables in our cities.

    • @samuelclark2434
      @samuelclark2434 5 лет назад +1

      And buena vista

  • @limalicious
    @limalicious 5 лет назад +4

    I'm SO happy y'all included Fauquier, Powhatan, Staunton, and Gloucester.
    Fauquier was my favorite.

    • @ChristophProbst
      @ChristophProbst 5 лет назад +2

      I was excited to see Fauquier because I live about 5 miles from there!

  • @Forkface12
    @Forkface12 4 месяца назад +1

    I live in VA in Roanoke VA near Buchanan an this is so real we have such weird city and town names

  • @megandaniellekeaton5721
    @megandaniellekeaton5721 5 лет назад +4

    IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS AS A VA NATIVE I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

  • @Jiddy12345
    @Jiddy12345 5 лет назад +13

    My home state. I missed a lot more than I thought I would.

  • @Novasterling
    @Novasterling 3 года назад +4

    Virginia is definitely the South, IMO, but you don't really feel like you're in Virginia until you're South of Stafford county , because the DC area is just transients.

  • @storyspinner70
    @storyspinner70 5 лет назад +4

    Wow I live super near Pulaski and missed like three of these...lmaooo I need to go back to school. Hiya from Tazewell!

    • @YTLaenir
      @YTLaenir 5 лет назад

      Hiya, person from Tazewell. I used to live right down the road in Lebanon.

    • @Asdfghjkl-pb1ir
      @Asdfghjkl-pb1ir 5 лет назад

      My dad’s family is from tazewell/bluefield area!!

  • @darrenmast7214
    @darrenmast7214 5 лет назад +20

    You’re wrong on Powhatan. That is most definitely not what the people from Powhatan call it. I grew up in Amelia, about a mile from the Powhatan county line.

  • @emilysmalley6795
    @emilysmalley6795 3 года назад +1

    Virginia is my home state. I wish you'd put Poquoson or Chincoteague on here. Norfolk, too. But all in all, great video.

  • @alexcovington5274
    @alexcovington5274 5 лет назад +17

    ok as a person who lives in virginia i was cracking up watching this😂

  • @phoebestanley1103
    @phoebestanley1103 5 лет назад +2

    I couldn't help but laugh at the way they said Haysi. That's my hometown and it's so crazy at the people who can't say it. Love the video

  • @chrisforbes3977
    @chrisforbes3977 5 лет назад +3

    Loved the video! I was born in Staunton and graduated from high school in Swoope.

  • @KellyAnn2390
    @KellyAnn2390 5 лет назад +9

    I wish yall would have included some really off the wall ones like Buena Vista, or Occoquan.

    • @RachelRamey
      @RachelRamey 5 лет назад

      These are probably too small to be included, but we've also lived in or near Matoaca and Opequon.

  • @ashleyRN00
    @ashleyRN00 5 лет назад +3

    I live in the town of Buchanan in the county of Botetourt!!! No one not from here can pronounce these first try!! 😆😆😆

  • @calliehall8034
    @calliehall8034 4 года назад +4

    I live in Powhatan, Virginia, and everyone calls it Pow-wah-tan. It's a small rural town, and gorgeous in the summer (and unbearably hot.)

  • @tylerscales1674
    @tylerscales1674 5 лет назад +8

    There's not a single person from Ararat who pronounces it that way. Locals pronounce it Air-Rat.

  • @gabbyb9935
    @gabbyb9935 4 года назад +1

    Someone from Montross VA here (Westmoreland county, between King George and Richmond county). I grew up on the Potomac, y'all would be surprised at how many people outside of DMV can't pronounce Potomac. Anyway, for some reason people outside of the Northern Neck (Westmoreland, Richmond, Northumberland, and Lancaster counties) tend to pronounce it "Montrose". IDK, just a little rant. Most people don't even know of our existence lol.

  • @MusicFreak4Evr101
    @MusicFreak4Evr101 5 лет назад +9

    I live in Staunton! Gorgeous town!

  • @amberc801
    @amberc801 5 лет назад +25

    Okay but the grandma woman has got to be from va

    • @RachelRamey
      @RachelRamey 5 лет назад +8

      Right? Who the heck just GUESSES the pronunciation of "McGaheysville"?

  • @ryanturpin5114
    @ryanturpin5114 5 лет назад +11

    They missed Buena Vista and Fries. Those two are my favorite odd pronunciations, but yay for Pulaski!

  • @lukeboyer808
    @lukeboyer808 3 года назад +1

    Powhatan: POW-uh-tan.
    Expert opinion from a born and raised Virginia boy

  • @Doubletrend
    @Doubletrend 5 лет назад +7

    “It’s Virginia, there’s a war everywhere, probably.”
    Honestly😂

    • @gloriasheppard2073
      @gloriasheppard2073 5 лет назад +1

      My grade school was Battlefield Park, middle Stonewall Jackson, and high Lee-Davis. Literally, my childhood home was built between two trenches on a dirt road.p

  • @smulk1200
    @smulk1200 3 года назад +2

    Fauquier is my home county so I'm glad someone could pronounce it! 😂

  • @abbycook3864
    @abbycook3864 5 лет назад +17

    Representing Botetourt county!

    • @nicholasbyram296
      @nicholasbyram296 4 года назад +1

      Everytime I drive through Botetourt, I get a speeding ticket for going like 6 MPH over the limit on the highway. Explain please.

  • @queenbeesbabiesnstuff312
    @queenbeesbabiesnstuff312 5 лет назад +1

    I'm from va and never heard of ANY of these places except fauquier and staunton

  • @laurasalley7386
    @laurasalley7386 5 лет назад +12

    IT'S👏POW👏A👏TAN👏NOT👏POW👏HAT👏UN👏

  • @MarysInks
    @MarysInks 3 года назад +2

    Shout out to my home town, Glaw-ster!

  • @Sam-cl7wq
    @Sam-cl7wq 5 лет назад +3

    Where the heck is Powhatten? Lol. Pow-uh-tan...I wanna hear y'all pronounce Powhite now 😂 this was fun, regardless!

    • @Sam-cl7wq
      @Sam-cl7wq 5 лет назад +1

      Sounds like something we would say as a joke to sound even more ridiculous than we already do LOL! "I'mma head on over to Powhatten to the liquah sto-yall need anythin?" ❤️home❤️

    • @4knewt505
      @4knewt505 5 лет назад

      Lol I forgot about powhite!!

  • @elliebeth09
    @elliebeth09 5 лет назад +1

    Yeah VA!! Luray or Tazewell would’ve been fun to see them try to pronounce, too.

  • @Jordanhubbard1
    @Jordanhubbard1 5 лет назад +3

    I'm from Honaker VA. Small town. ;) nice place

    • @YTLaenir
      @YTLaenir 5 лет назад +1

      Yo, Honaker! I used to live in Lebanon.

    • @Jordanhubbard1
      @Jordanhubbard1 5 лет назад

      Well I live on John son road now but I did live in honaker

    • @aili03
      @aili03 5 лет назад

      Abingdon 👋🏻

  • @bethslaughter4279
    @bethslaughter4279 5 лет назад +1

    Woot woot. I live in Warrenton, VA which happens to be located in Fauquier County. Yes y’all!

  • @jlhabitan50
    @jlhabitan50 5 лет назад +3

    I only lived in Virginia for about a year but now Virginia lives in my heart. Shout out to all my peeps in Falls Church and Fairfax County!
    I only got Buchanan, Fauquier, Gloucester, and Powhatan right. hehe

  • @shinydiamonds0458
    @shinydiamonds0458 2 года назад +1

    I would’ve loved it they put bumpass and tappahannock in here lmao

  • @catherinewithac4554
    @catherinewithac4554 5 лет назад +8

    Louisiana next. Please? I have been suggesting this for a long time now.
    They are either avoiding me, or saving the best state for last (not saying Louisiana is the best state).

    • @catherinewithac4554
      @catherinewithac4554 5 лет назад +1

      And also I am guessing they will do West Virginia next. Louisiana can't win.

    • @morganm.4356
      @morganm.4356 5 лет назад

      I have been saying Oklahoma but they haven’t doing it. I think they don’t consider us in the south for some reason

  • @joeywebster7617
    @joeywebster7617 5 лет назад +2

    Once said Fauquier when I was in elementary school. Teacher pulled me aside for a talk about my language.

  • @jeprecisionlogistics7357
    @jeprecisionlogistics7357 5 лет назад +20

    The last time I was this early I wasn't saying bless your heart to James Charles 😂😢

  • @moorek1967
    @moorek1967 5 лет назад +1

    I have ancestors who were Monacan from the great Powhatan Confederacy. And my dad's grandma was from Pew-lass-key.

  • @patrickstar151
    @patrickstar151 5 лет назад +16

    If you lived in Northern Virginia at some point in your life:
    Comment if you lived in Northern Virginia
    Like you lived in Southern Virginia

    • @katherineludwig5804
      @katherineludwig5804 5 лет назад

      Jaslene Hernandez loudoun county!!

    • @katherineludwig5804
      @katherineludwig5804 5 лет назад

      Meade Vlog channel yeah, it’s crazy. I moved away only a year ago and it’s a huge difference after even in a year.

    • @greggdriscoll5075
      @greggdriscoll5075 5 лет назад

      @@katherineludwig5804 Northern va please secede from the rest of the state. Thank you! Much love from southern Virginian.

    • @strawberrycola1994
      @strawberrycola1994 5 лет назад

      Fairfax County

    • @jasoncampos2933
      @jasoncampos2933 4 года назад

      Northern is the south Maybe not culturally but it is Dixie. During the civil War the most successful Confederate was the Army of northern Virginia. Don’t forget Robert e lee is from northern Virginia

  • @TheRogueFeline
    @TheRogueFeline 5 лет назад +1

    Omg, im so happy and giddy yall did my home state of Virginia. I was wondering if yall were gonna do it or not. Good job. 😆👍😁 born and raised in norfolk, now living in va beach.

  • @gabbyspringer6947
    @gabbyspringer6947 5 лет назад +15

    Yay Staunton, even we who live here don't say it right.

    • @arcinva
      @arcinva 5 лет назад

      *puts nerd glasses on* Actually, we do. I was always told that Lady Staunton pronounced her name the way we do. Honestly, I'm not sure if that's true, but it is what I was always told. Haha.

    • @aceproffitt8315
      @aceproffitt8315 4 года назад

      I miss it there to be honest, but I was tired of all the crime.

  • @Funnywomangaming
    @Funnywomangaming 5 лет назад +1

    I live in Botetourt more specifically in Buchanan. We have a huge sports complex where people come from all over to play softball and my god it is entertaining to hear people try to pronounce Botetourt. Of course also only people who live in Buchanan pronounce it Buck-hannon. Everyone else still trys to say Buchanan

  • @aidoll3692
    @aidoll3692 4 года назад +8

    Welp. As a Virginian, let me just add a town and test a quick theory:
    Dumfries
    If you just pronounced it as Dumb Fries, good effort but incorrect.

  • @alwaysjustjohn
    @alwaysjustjohn 3 года назад +2

    I'm from Virginia 10 generations deep and ... I had no clues 🤣🤣🤣

  • @laurenragle5228
    @laurenragle5228 4 года назад +3

    Y'all should do Maryland - it's the "Old Line State" because the northern border is the Mason-Dixon Line, making it technically Southern.

    • @Novasterling
      @Novasterling 3 года назад

      I agree, Maryland has Southern culture, but we had to beg them to do Virginia so I don't know. I like Maryland Eastern Shore.

    • @schs1977
      @schs1977 2 года назад

      Agree. Also West Virginia should be included. We are definitely Southern.

  • @joeym.2488
    @joeym.2488 3 года назад +1

    I am actually really surprised Fauquier tripped all y’all up but then again I’m Virginian

  • @iheartqueso
    @iheartqueso 5 лет назад +4

    Was hoping yall were going to have Luray on this list. If youre from the area you know what im talking about.

    • @eldergeek6077
      @eldergeek6077 5 лет назад

      Yes I've heard of the famous Luray Caverns.

    • @arcinva
      @arcinva 5 лет назад +3

      Why, it's LOO-ray, of course. :D

  • @beegnome7610
    @beegnome7610 5 лет назад +2

    Grew up on the Eastern Shore, surprised they didn't do any of our towns because no one can say them right.

    • @SALEENS7GTR5
      @SALEENS7GTR5 5 лет назад +2

      You could make an entire video out of the Eastern Shore, but have someone from Tangier administer it.

    • @beegnome7610
      @beegnome7610 5 лет назад

      @@SALEENS7GTR5 I wish I could like this more than once :P

  • @t900badbot
    @t900badbot 5 лет назад +4

    We don't drink, nor smoke, Norfolk!

  • @vaystation9059
    @vaystation9059 5 лет назад +1

    Love it! Henrico, Goochland, Portsmouth and Onancock are my favorites. Grew up in Henrico Co. Love to hear yanks try to pronounce it when they visit.

  • @caitlinc2306
    @caitlinc2306 5 лет назад +11

    Oh yay! I’m from Virginia Beach! 😂

  • @jennileecreates
    @jennileecreates 5 лет назад +2

    While not a city, I would love for y'all to try and pronounce Kecoughtan!

    • @Melanie220
      @Melanie220 Год назад

      Four years later and I'm here to say the same thing. If you can pronounce Kecoughtan, you are a Virginian, without a doubt!

  • @maryjenkins3901
    @maryjenkins3901 5 лет назад +11

    I can't believe they didn't include Buena Vista, pronounced BYOO-nah VISS-tah

    • @cvrator
      @cvrator 5 лет назад +1

      Yeah, I thought for sure that was going to be in there.

    • @vinista256
      @vinista256 2 года назад

      Thank you! (I live there, and I was SOOO disappointed ☹️)

  • @kevinbaker9665
    @kevinbaker9665 5 лет назад +1

    Okay, what happened to Naw-fok ? Fauquier is the only one that I still have trouble with. BTW, boren in Texas, raised in North Cacalaki but living in VA for the last 40 years