Naturally, I knew all of these, because I am from West Virginia... SOOO GLAD y'all finally put West Virginia in the southern mix! Thanks for bringing it home 😊 ... And don't take Dramamine next time. We have trout streams that will smack you down ;)
@@cynthiathompson6427 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the South is composed of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia-and Florida. So don't be a hater 😉
@@ancientsouloutdoors4088 they're wrong too then lol I guess it depends on whether you're drawing a line exactly down the center of the u s. Or if you mean north and south based on civil war mentality/historical significance
Not Allegheny, have them pronounce Appalachia because outsiders always try to make it with a long "a" instead of rhyming with latch, as it should be. ❤️ From West by-God Virginia
SOMEONE didn't pay attenion in HISTORY and GEOGRAPHY class!! No ma'am, we are not a smaller part of Virginia! But thanks for finally including us. It makes me happy.
Do you guys think of yourselves as Southern, or would you describe yourselves as mountain people? I mean, which descriptor do you think of first? Just curious.
Jpm I see myself as a mountaineer. My family were pioneers that settled here before Civil War. They were here during the American Revolution War. So that precedes any Southern link. Far as Im concerned.
Because none of my family is from here, and we all live at the very, very southernmost portion of the state, I consider myself and my family southern before mountaineers.
Y'all should include Gerrardstown, Kearneysville, and Great Cacapon in a part 2. Also, Kanahwa County and Canaan Valley tend to trip people up (of course those two aren't towns).
It's really funny being from West Virginia and hearing the guy say "Won't you take me to Pruntytown", since that's about the last place you want to go.
I'm from West Virginia born and raised and honestly I didn't know these towns lol I'm just happy that we finally got mentioned cause sadly we r like the least known state
I go to hurricane high school and we got a new principal a couple years ago. We had a whole assembly and he introduced himself. At the end of his speech he said “and I’m so glad that I can now call myself a Hurricane redskin” but pronounced it like an actual hurricane. He’s never lived it down.
I grew up in Kanawha County. My hs band participated in a band competition at Hurricane HS. I don't know where the announcer came from, but he was not local. Always wondered if he ever learned why the crowd laughed everytime he said Hurricane.
@@sharynstover1823 I was referring to the Civil War where they broke off from Virginia to stay part of the Union, I mean if we go by the Southern Appalachian/Mason Dixon line as the south, half of Maryland is
@@sharynstover1823 it wasnt too salty.Just remember the American Revolution was Mass and then NY and the rest of you tagged along. Rebelliousness is very much a northern thing first, remember Shays Rebellion among other things. And Remember WV chose to be Yankees from 1862-1865 so they are part Northerner Part Southerner.
@@sharynstover1823 oh it is unique as they sided with the Union in opposition to the rest of Virginia, much in the way Missouri stayed as part of the Union too as did Kentucky, what was unique about WV is that they broke off to be with the Union rather than a state choosing it. What is more is they went nearly 70% for Lincoln in the 1864 election and his fifth strongest state in his reelection, and had some of the biggest public mourning for him when he was assassinated. There are still many monuments to him around the state. I know people from down there who wear with pride their families fought in Blue in the civil war.
I’m from WV and it’s funny to me that lobata ended up on this list, it’s a little unincorporated community that was next to my little unincorporated community. I’d say less than 50 people live there.
They probably just picked mostly smaller cities people would have a hard time pronouncing. Everyone is gonna be able to say Beckley, Parkersburg, Huntington, Charleston, etc.
This is so weird, I’ve lived in central Ohio all my life and both of my parents have too, but because I have the WV accent in my genes, I still knew most of these lol
I love this so much. Me and my grandma freak out everytime you post something and ever since the bless your heart video we keep dying of laughter everytime she says it 💗
Now calm down there feller. Those folks can't hear ya screaming at your computer. Youl be alright. I knew prunytown right off the bat cause my Mama's usta threaten to send me there as a youngin ifin I didn't behave.
I’m so happy that y’all did West Virginia, even though we may not be considered the south. I can relate to all of you videos. I also recently went to Blennerhassett for a school field trip. Edit: Thanks for the info, I now know that it is part of the south, my bad lol
Pruntytown used to have to a home that was referred to by my parents as ”kid jail”. I was scared to death to get in trouble because I might get sent there! I knew all but two places. 😄
@@LibertyWarrior1776 😂 that makes it even funnier because I was raised 185 miles from Pruntytown. I can only imagine how much the local kids were threatened. 😂 😂 😂
There is a dam in Nicholas County called the Summersville Dam . Summersville is actually not the closest place to the dam. The closest place to the dam is called Gad. We'll let folks from outside of West (By God) Virginia figure it out on their own.
@@chelelee6321 Yes, you are correct. It was called the Summersville Dam, because of how that sounded. I've been to Sutton. I live in Mon County, Morgantown. It's always nice to hear from a fellow Appalachian. Montani Semper Liberi ⛰
No we’re not! We left the confederacy in 1863 because Richmond decided that since the northwest of the state was poor they we could fight their war for them.
Randy Pauley What happened in 1862 (that most of the state’s citizens were against, by the way) didn’t impact the culture or make it any less southern. It is a southern state both technically and culturally.
I'm from West Virginia and you touched a nerve with the Virginia thing. We're proud WEST Virginians lol I would have liked them to try Kanawha and some of these I couldn't even pronounce. lol
I live in Wv and this was awesome. I think its pretty hard to sound out all of these names. You kinda have to listen and learn them. However, living in a tourist hot spot, I've heard some really creative pronunciations.
I'm glad they included Hurricane on this list! And it makes perfect sense to mispronounce it on purpose as to not confuse the town with the actual word.
haha My kids went to Monongah elementary...I knew they wouldnt get that one. Y'all need to get these people some pepperoni rolls!! We live in Ga now though 😁.
I’m so glad to see West Virginia being recognized as southern! So silly that so many people don’t consider it part of the south. It’s both officially and culturally part of the southeast, save for the top third of the state bordering Pennsylvania.
If you're going to do West Virginia town names, you should have sampled Tudor's Biscuit World when you were talking fast food biscuits. They're the best fast food biscuits I've had. (On a related, but hopefully uncharacteristic note, two Bojangles opened in Huntington recently. They only lasted about 2 years and shut down. They deserved to. A couple of months ago I had a chicken biscuit at the last one to remain open, and it was not fit to feed to a dog. Both the biscuit and the chicken were so dry they must have been under a heat lamp for 12 hours at least.)
They opened a Bojangles in my hometown, and I've yet to eat there. I live in NC now and I am not a fan of Bojangles at all. So I'm not going to go home and eat it either.
Every kid who lived within 30 miles of Pruntytown was scared to death of that place and their parents threatened to send them there if they didn't behave. I had an Aunt who was a Nurse there. it was basically a Prison for kids.
I’m from WV and these are real towns and pronounced correctly by some after several attempts. As a YT creator myself... I can’t believe the views you got in this. 😂😂
I am from Ohio...... BUTTTT my Mother is from West Virginia. I love it when I see my Grandparents and cousins and aunt and uncle. The drive is so pretty. And hey have good sweet tea
kanawha and manongahalia(i think that how my teacher spells it🤷♀️) are so much fun to try and pronounce. i’m from Parkersburg WV which is in wood county and history class is sometimes just like this video
Ok, so I can’t believe that lady said we were just like a smaller part of Virginia, considering that the whole reason West Virginia exists was because it split apart from Virginia in refusal to fight with the south in the civil war. Isn’t that common knowledge? Anyway that really shocked me. No it is not the western part of Virginia.. and there were really many way more interesting harder to pronounce towns they could have used also.
Blennerhasset is not a town it is an island was owned by the Blennerhasset family around the civil war. Now it is a living museum. There are guided tours of the mansion. Horse drawn Buggies around the island. Candlelight dinners at Christmas. Right outside of Parkersburg,WV.
@@annabeth2145 Very true...but i could not remember a date. I could remember that it was said that they hosted John Wilkes Booth for a time. Could have been part of the conspiracy to kill President Lincoln . So i said civil war
@@annabeth2145 Use to go with the grade school as a chaperone...plus taking people from out of towm. Dates never stuck with me...but details, rumors...did
I got 4 of these right! I knew Hurricane cuz there's a Hurricane Fork near where I live in Missouri and it's pronounced the same way! So I was laughing at their disbelief that Hurricane could be pronounced any other way!😂
I live in Monongahela county in WV.. it was supposed to be named after the river that runs through, but when naming the county, they spelled it wrong..
Yogioheny... try that one... pronounced yock a gain ee...I live in West Virginia and for years I pronounced it yogi o hain y.... my husband corrected me quickly...I tend to pronounce words by breaking them apart....a lot of towns are actually Indian names and that is why it's so hard....I married into West Virginia...I was born in Indiana and raised in Texas and married an Army man.... he has passed away and I'm here because my children and grandchildren and great grandkids are here.... so I am a transplant from Texas and I adore it here.... I'm in awe of the season changes I get to experience now....
I'm from Seattle and few outsiders can pronounce many Washington State towns like Snoqualmie, Puyallup, Wahkiakum, Sequim, Tulalip, Pend Oreille and Steilacoom. And don't you dare put an R into Washington! ;)
Ronceverte, Helvetia, Matoaka or Opequon should have been on here, although I don't think Opequon is a town anymore. I'm kinda bummed out by just now finding this video, Oh well better late than never.
NO, we are not just a smaller portion of Virginia!
That's like saying that North Carolina is just a portion of South Carolina.
ARRRRH!
THANK YOU, Mike Smith! That hit me too!
Peach it Mr. Smith
MONTANI SEMPER LIBERI 🏔
Thank you!
Yeah! The bigger portion of SC.
West Virginian here been waiting for this video for so long
Fr
Bruh what are you doing here?
They didn’t include Kanawha would’ve been funny to see them do that one
@@cruxal1576 or appalachian
Aren’t you a little disappointed by it though?
West Virginian here. Disappointed they didn't put Cacapon on there! Kanawha (County) is a fun one, too.
Kanawha is actually two syllables, right? (Kna-a)
My favorite is Kanawha. I LOVE when I talk to people and they try to pronounce it. Its hilarious 😂😂
drtee51 not when pronounced. Basically you just stop the ha. That’s it.
drtee51 no it’s pretty much Kanaw
You can always tell when new newscasters are from some other state. They can't say Kanawha.
Naturally, I knew all of these, because I am from West Virginia...
SOOO GLAD y'all finally put West Virginia in the southern mix!
Thanks for bringing it home 😊
... And don't take Dramamine next time.
We have trout streams that will smack you down ;)
I live in wv too
However i missed almost all of them lol
That’s not how we pronounce Pruntytown in north central WV 😂
West Virginia is northern.
@@cynthiathompson6427 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the South is composed of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia-and Florida.
So don't be a hater 😉
@@ancientsouloutdoors4088 they're wrong too then lol I guess it depends on whether you're drawing a line exactly down the center of the u s. Or if you mean north and south based on civil war mentality/historical significance
You should’ve had them try to pronounce “Allegheny”.
Not Allegheny, have them pronounce Appalachia because outsiders always try to make it with a long "a" instead of rhyming with latch, as it should be. ❤️ From West by-God Virginia
slightly annoyed that woulda been so funny 😭😂
slightly annoyed that woulda been so funny 😭😂
Or Egeria, or Iaeger
They should have done Kanawha
I’m from West Virginia and i couldn’t even pronounce half of this😂
I guessed all but 3 right. Never been to WV in my life 😂
Candice Honeycutt I got them all wrong, I’ve been there, and in the right town I’m somehow related to most everyone there.
Ikr ... I didnt even know of some of these places ..lol
Samee
Same
No West Virginia isn't half of Virginia. :-P
@Ada Hawkins west virgina, not virgina since 1863
@Ada Hawkins thats because we weren't confederates and we hated slavery, Virginia was the insane one
West Virgina is the best virgina.
Technically, it is. Lol
i heard that and said “uh oh, you going to have most of Virginia in here trying to fight in a second.”
SOMEONE didn't pay attenion in HISTORY and GEOGRAPHY class!! No ma'am, we are not a smaller part of Virginia!
But thanks for finally including us. It makes me happy.
Do you guys think of yourselves as Southern, or would you describe yourselves as mountain people? I mean, which descriptor do you think of first? Just curious.
Southern
Below the Mason-Dixon.
The whole state is nothing but hills. Iron it out and we’re as big as Texas.
Jpm I see myself as a mountaineer. My family were pioneers that settled here before Civil War. They were here during the American Revolution War. So that precedes any Southern link. Far as Im concerned.
Evans Wilson Were they Scottish?
Because none of my family is from here, and we all live at the very, very southernmost portion of the state, I consider myself and my family southern before mountaineers.
Y'all should include Gerrardstown, Kearneysville, and Great Cacapon in a part 2. Also, Kanahwa County and Canaan Valley tend to trip people up (of course those two aren't towns).
And Ronceverte.
Yes...
Onego
Gideon Johnston Huntington
I live in Kearneysville and everyone either says kerneesville or karneesville, so it doesn't really matter here
Just found this channel... and I’m addicted!!
Live To Give me too!
Live To Give same
Omg sameeeee
I live in West Virginia!
I'm from WV and I knew all but one of them.
It would have been funny hearing them try to pronounce the names of some of the counties.
Monongahela especially. 😂
Monongahela is a River, Monongalia is the county.
It's really funny being from West Virginia and hearing the guy say "Won't you take me to Pruntytown", since that's about the last place you want to go.
I live right next to the prison lol
@Wes Sparkman Great to see you on here! Haven't seen your family in years!! 😳 (Maiden name is Horner -- we used to go to the same church as kids) 😊
Unless you're getting "sent up"!
Philippi! I’ve been there a couple times for genealogy. The covered bridge is amazing!
First land battle of the Civil War!
I'm from West Virginia born and raised and honestly I didn't know these towns lol I'm just happy that we finally got mentioned cause sadly we r like the least known state
Oh we’re a known state we’re just know for all the wrong reasons
Big Ounce Truth!
I know and everyone has negative thoughts about West Virginia too
I live right by hurricane and I’m so happy it’s on there!
There's a town named Hurricane in Utah and we pronounce it the same way. Who knew!
I'm from Huntington, and I wanted to smack that lady who said we were basically VA but smaller too!! 🤣🤣
sophie pierzala Same, I live in Ona and i’m amazed at how many these people got wrong, a lot of these are just pronounced the way they look
My uncle just moved to Hurricane from Cross Lanes! (our whole family originates from West Virginia)
"It's a part of Virginia, just a smaller portion of it" *triggered*
Same 😂
Right?!?
This gave me a.damn headache. We are not part.of Virginia dammit
But we are, technically.
@@yolandaponkers1581 we aint. Fuck Virginia lol
I go to hurricane high school and we got a new principal a couple years ago. We had a whole assembly and he introduced himself. At the end of his speech he said “and I’m so glad that I can now call myself a Hurricane redskin” but pronounced it like an actual hurricane. He’s never lived it down.
I grew up in Kanawha County. My hs band participated in a band competition at Hurricane HS. I don't know where the announcer came from, but he was not local. Always wondered if he ever learned why the crowd laughed everytime he said Hurricane.
You pronounce West Virginia towns like NC towns, you always use a southern accent
West Virginia, Southerners who is 1862 decided they wanted to be Northerners and today are neither southern nor northern, but got the best of both
Now most claim the south too lol
@@sharynstover1823 I was referring to the Civil War where they broke off from Virginia to stay part of the Union, I mean if we go by the Southern Appalachian/Mason Dixon line as the south, half of Maryland is
@@sharynstover1823 it wasnt too salty.Just remember the American Revolution was Mass and then NY and the rest of you tagged along. Rebelliousness is very much a northern thing first, remember Shays Rebellion among other things. And Remember WV chose to be Yankees from 1862-1865 so they are part Northerner Part Southerner.
@@sharynstover1823 oh it is unique as they sided with the Union in opposition to the rest of Virginia, much in the way Missouri stayed as part of the Union too as did Kentucky, what was unique about WV is that they broke off to be with the Union rather than a state choosing it. What is more is they went nearly 70% for Lincoln in the 1864 election and his fifth strongest state in his reelection, and had some of the biggest public mourning for him when he was assassinated. There are still many monuments to him around the state. I know people from down there who wear with pride their families fought in Blue in the civil war.
In Virginia, y’all are referred to as yankee Virginia
Me who lives in Hurricane: I know their gonna be wrong
Edit: I’m surprised one of them got it right.
I’m from WV and it’s funny to me that lobata ended up on this list, it’s a little unincorporated community that was next to my little unincorporated community. I’d say less than 50 people live there.
They probably just picked mostly smaller cities people would have a hard time pronouncing. Everyone is gonna be able to say Beckley, Parkersburg, Huntington, Charleston, etc.
@@deaj8450 Hatfield & McCoys
@@Faine8 Ah. Been quite a few years since I've seen that.
Bro,we’re West Virginia not Virginia,we have a state song that almost everybody knows
West Virginia ain’t the south.
@@jasoncampos2933 no one even said anything ab the south
Well I’m just saying y’all ain’t the south. Y’all left Dixie back 1863
@@jasoncampos2933 I'm glad we're not the south tf
@@jasoncampos2933 we don't want it to be south head ass
I asked for this last month and I got it! Thank y’all!
This is so weird, I’ve lived in central Ohio all my life and both of my parents have too, but because I have the WV accent in my genes, I still knew most of these lol
I love this so much. Me and my grandma freak out everytime you post something and ever since the bless your heart video we keep dying of laughter everytime she says it 💗
West Virginiaaa, mountain mama. Take me home, country roads
I hear her voice in the morning hours cuz the radio reminds me of my home far a way
Gacha_trash UwU Driving down the road I get a feeling that I should been home yesterday. Yesterday.
Should have made them done Kanawha. That would have been hilarious.
As a native of WV, I found myself screaming the correct answers out of frustration when they would get them wrong.
Now calm down there feller. Those folks can't hear ya screaming at your computer. Youl be alright. I knew prunytown right off the bat cause my Mama's usta threaten to send me there as a youngin ifin I didn't behave.
Anyone else read the second name as “Bless your heart”?
I did but I think that's because because of dyslexia. Lol!
I’m so happy that y’all did West Virginia, even though we may not be considered the south. I can relate to all of you videos. I also recently went to Blennerhassett for a school field trip.
Edit: Thanks for the info, I now know that it is part of the south, my bad lol
Piano Octopus we’re below the Mason-Dixon -> Southern State
West Virginia is indeed a Southern state.
Pruntytown used to have to a home that was referred to by my parents as ”kid jail”. I was scared to death to get in trouble because I might get sent there!
I knew all but two places. 😄
I'm glad I'm not the only WV kid that was ever threatened with Pruntytown! 😂
Oh yes, every kid within 30 miles was threatened with Pruntytown by their parents if they didn't behave.....LOL :-)
@@LibertyWarrior1776 😂 that makes it even funnier because I was raised 185 miles from Pruntytown. I can only imagine how much the local kids were threatened. 😂 😂 😂
@@TiffanyG8675309 I had an Aunt that worked there as a Nurse. That place was super scary to a little kid.....LMAO
@@LibertyWarrior1776 oh lawd. You walked the straight and narrow for sure. 😂
There is a dam in Nicholas County called the Summersville Dam . Summersville is actually not the closest place to the dam. The closest place to the dam is called Gad. We'll let folks from outside of West (By God) Virginia figure it out on their own.
Great fishing there though.
@@tmurph247 Gad Dam, there are some nice fishes down there!!!
I live in Sutton, a stone's throw from there. I thought I saw they renamed it because Gad dam sounded bad...did they rename?
@@chelelee6321 Yes, you are correct. It was called the Summersville Dam, because of how that sounded. I've been to Sutton. I live in Mon County, Morgantown. It's always nice to hear from a fellow Appalachian. Montani Semper Liberi ⛰
@@chelelee6321 I don't think that it was ever called anything but the Summersville Dam.
I am a West Virginian, and these were the easy ones. Lol. We got some doozies. I’d vote for her for Gov.
now i hope this settles it for y’all to realize that west virginia is a southern state
Kate Combs
YES!!! 👍😃
No we’re not! We left the confederacy in 1863 because Richmond decided that since the northwest of the state was poor they we could fight their war for them.
@@randypauley6982 No. Just no.
Randy Pauley What happened in 1862 (that most of the state’s citizens were against, by the way) didn’t impact the culture or make it any less southern. It is a southern state both technically and culturally.
How about Fairlea? I have no idea unless I call the local Sheriff's department. lol
The real question is when does L-berg end, Fairlea start, and where does Ronceverte start?
Y'all should visit Blennerhassett island, it's beautiful
I live up the road from Hurricane so yup only one I knew lol
I'm from West Virginia and you touched a nerve with the Virginia thing. We're proud WEST Virginians lol I would have liked them to try Kanawha and some of these I couldn't even pronounce. lol
“Monica right next to Phoebe and Rachel “ I love that.
Taylor Q
There’s a town named Rachel here. 👍
As a kid, I spent a lot of time with my Nana who lived in Monongah😃
I swear to you no one knows that West Virginia is even a state, I would know bc I live in WV.
Had a fight with a 90 old lady in Texas that insisted we are not a state 🤬🤬
I'm so surprised Onego wasn't included. Then again, I don't think any of them would have had a chance at getting it right.
Nothing tops Big Ugly, though. 😹😹
My kinfolk are from WV. So much so that there is a town in Braxton County names after them.
I'm a West Virginian and this was, um, interesting. Lol! I've been waiting for this!
I live in West Virginia and I didn't know how to pronounce most of these lol
I have lived in west Virginia all my life an I wouldn't leave if u paid me I love my state its beautiful
Look for more towns. I enjoyed this video. The southerners are so cool pronouncing the names.
I live in Wv and this was awesome. I think its pretty hard to sound out all of these names. You kinda have to listen and learn them. However, living in a tourist hot spot, I've heard some really creative pronunciations.
Why do folks get these maps that make the Northern Panhandle look like it got cut off?
Please do one for Arkansas! My state :(
Dimitri Kittrell they ask a couple of weeks back on Facebook for names but I haven’t seen anything else. I’m hoping they are still going to do it.
I’m begging the Southern Thing team, please do Missouri town names next!! 🥰
I'm glad they included Hurricane on this list! And it makes perfect sense to mispronounce it on purpose as to not confuse the town with the actual word.
I'm from South Florida and I didn't mispronounced the town of Hurricane (Hurrah-kin)
Yolyn: YOU LYIN’
The happiest anyone has ever been about West Virginia
haha My kids went to Monongah elementary...I knew they wouldnt get that one. Y'all need to get these people some pepperoni rolls!! We live in Ga now though 😁.
Love these videos!!
😆 🤣 I'm crying right now! Too funny!
How about kanawha city
They did not want to scare them too badly...i live in Parkersburg...where the Ohio, Big and Little Kanawha meet
What about Ronceverte? Pronouned Ron-suh-vurt
And is French for Greenbrier!!!
Yes represent our neighbor to Lewisburg!
I’m so glad to see West Virginia being recognized as southern! So silly that so many people don’t consider it part of the south. It’s both officially and culturally part of the southeast, save for the top third of the state bordering Pennsylvania.
No it isn’t
It’s the southern most northern state and the most northern state of the south.
@@kyleshafer563You are incorrect. It is included in the southern and mid-Atlantic regions of the US.
@@yolandaponkers1581 no it isn’t
“Being from Louisiana helps....” 🤣🤣🤣
Mom is from New Orleans, Dad is from Belle, West Virginia.
You need to do weird location names for West Virginia.
Monongahela, Replete, New Vrindaban, Sago, and Rio would all be good.
I expected to see Rio. Not much of a "town" but the name is perfect for a show like this.
@@krbkrbkrbkrbkrb please tell me your not talking about Rio, that has the thrift shop termed the Rio Mall
If you're going to do West Virginia town names, you should have sampled Tudor's Biscuit World when you were talking fast food biscuits. They're the best fast food biscuits I've had. (On a related, but hopefully uncharacteristic note, two Bojangles opened in Huntington recently. They only lasted about 2 years and shut down. They deserved to. A couple of months ago I had a chicken biscuit at the last one to remain open, and it was not fit to feed to a dog. Both the biscuit and the chicken were so dry they must have been under a heat lamp for 12 hours at least.)
I drive from north of Akron, Ohio to get Tudor's Biscuit World! That place is fantastic! Biscuits and gravy=👍👍👍👍👍
They opened a Bojangles in my hometown, and I've yet to eat there. I live in NC now and I am not a fan of Bojangles at all. So I'm not going to go home and eat it either.
You guys make me happy
Philippi! I went to A-B (c/o 2002). I've lived in WV all my life and I can't recall ever hearing about Lobata or Yolyn. I've maybe heard of Delorme.
Omg I just drove through and was asking myself how to pronounce stuff! I wish I would have watched this first
There’s “Virginia” and then there’s “best Virginia”.
On point.
Ci
West Virginia is definitely not better than Virginia. Y’all don’t even have a beach
@@whatchulookinatboa we got mountains
@@BlueberryMuppet so does regular Virginia
These are my favorite videos y'all make.
I've lived in WV my whole life and have only heard of 1 or 2 of these towns
I like how everyone thinks we say everything with an. Accent when there are a lot of us who don’t even have one 😂
Everyone has an accent. You probably just have a generic California accent.
Ronceverte was a dandy that you didn't include. Ronts Uh Ferd is how the locals in this Greenbriar County town pronounce their place of residence.
Y’all need to go to Blennerhassett- it’s a really pretty town!
Not a town, its an island off the shore of Parkersburg in the Ohio River🤦♀️
Yes, it’s a beautiful island rich in history. They offer a great tour!
Philippi is a real place because that is where I was born and raised lol we are real!!!!
Every kid who lived within 30 miles of Pruntytown was scared to death of that place and their parents threatened to send them there if they didn't behave. I had an Aunt who was a Nurse there. it was basically a Prison for kids.
I remember those threats!
Grew up in Hurricane. I still pronounce it that way even when speaking of large tropical storms.
I’m from WV and these are real towns and pronounced correctly by some after several attempts. As a YT creator myself... I can’t believe the views you got in this. 😂😂
I am from Ohio...... BUTTTT my Mother is from West Virginia. I love it when I see my Grandparents and cousins and aunt and uncle. The drive is so pretty. And hey have good sweet tea
Didn't expect Queen Latifah to be in the video. Hahaha.
West Virginian here and I'm surprised they got hurricane right. They need to do a second, because this is fun to watch
Pennsylvania is not the south, but we can give you a run for your money with town names.
Yes, you can!
Yeah you can, especially the western half of the state and all the former Indian named places.
As a girl from Philippi I appreciate the effort lmao
kanawha and manongahalia(i think that how my teacher spells it🤷♀️) are so much fun to try and pronounce. i’m from Parkersburg WV which is in wood county and history class is sometimes just like this video
Ok, so I can’t believe that lady said we were just like a smaller part of Virginia, considering that the whole reason West Virginia exists was because it split apart from Virginia in refusal to fight with the south in the civil war. Isn’t that common knowledge? Anyway that really shocked me. No it is not the western part of Virginia.. and there were really many way more interesting harder to pronounce towns they could have used also.
I can't believe they named a state after a song
Yunz should do WV counties it would be a hilarious video. Also you messed up country roads in the intro
I’m from WV and I can say, I wouldn’t be able to guess a single one if not for travel and WV History class a few years back 😂
We have a hurricane in Utah and I got it write of the bat
Blennerhasset is not a town it is an island was owned by the Blennerhasset family around the civil war. Now it is a living museum. There are guided tours of the mansion. Horse drawn Buggies around the island. Candlelight dinners at Christmas. Right outside of Parkersburg,WV.
Denise Fragale it was earlier then the civil war
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Very true...but i could not remember a date. I could remember that it was said that they hosted John Wilkes Booth for a time. Could have been part of the conspiracy to kill President Lincoln . So i said civil war
Denise Fragale ok. I personally don't remember that about John Wilkes Booth
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Use to go with the grade school as a chaperone...plus taking people from out of towm. Dates never stuck with me...but details, rumors...did
Denise Fragale ok
I knew Hurricane would be on the list :-)
I got 4 of these right! I knew Hurricane cuz there's a Hurricane Fork near where I live in Missouri and it's pronounced the same way! So I was laughing at their disbelief that Hurricane could be pronounced any other way!😂
I live in Monongahela county in WV.. it was supposed to be named after the river that runs through, but when naming the county, they spelled it wrong..
I live in Washington, which is right next to Blennerhassett, which makes me happy. :)
Y’all are awesome
I live in Keyser, WV rarely do they get it right.
Im from Petersburg, Ive heard alot of out of staters call it Kayser and some call it Keeser
Yogioheny... try that one... pronounced yock a gain ee...I live in West Virginia and for years I pronounced it yogi o hain y.... my husband corrected me quickly...I tend to pronounce words by breaking them apart....a lot of towns are actually Indian names and that is why it's so hard....I married into West Virginia...I was born in Indiana and raised in Texas and married an Army man.... he has passed away and I'm here because my children and grandchildren and great grandkids are here.... so I am a transplant from Texas and I adore it here.... I'm in awe of the season changes I get to experience now....
Im from West Virginia.. I knew them all.😉 Those from WV and don't, did pay attention in WV history! That all I'm saying..😄❤❤
They should've done Fayetteville.
I hated history lol
I'm from Seattle and few outsiders can pronounce many Washington State towns like Snoqualmie, Puyallup, Wahkiakum, Sequim, Tulalip, Pend Oreille and Steilacoom. And don't you dare put an R into Washington! ;)
Battle Of Trenton wow you win 😏😄
Down here in Cabell County, we’re behind pretty much everyone in History.
Ronceverte, Helvetia, Matoaka or Opequon should have been on here, although I don't think Opequon is a town anymore. I'm kinda bummed out by just now finding this video, Oh well better late than never.
Can't believe you started this with my Hometown. Almost no one knows it anymore.