Can Influencers Pronounce the most Mispronounced City Names in America?
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2023
- I wrote out 30 of the most mispronounced cities in America and then gave my friends 60 seconds to pronounce as many of them correctly as possible. Who do you think won?
Pronunciation guide:
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So close to the border (Tacoma, Syracuse, Buffalo) but nothing in Canada?
@@allanlank I still don't have a passport
@@Ben_Brainard LOL. That is SO American of you. You should get one, your stand-up would do VERY well in "The Great White North" (only come in the summer, winters can be brutal here).
Ekalaka, Helena, Wibaux, Choteau, and Missoula, all in Montana
I love how Ben finds so much pleasure in the suffering of others
Its like the people of masschusetts
Woo fellow Owl House fan
It's cause he's already suffered through it.
Ah, the Florida Man is strong with this one.
✨F L O R I D A✨
The actual pronounciation of cœur d’alene hurts my heart. But, seeing them fail at saying Sault Ste. Marie and Mackinac was really funny
Seeing people struggling on Coeur d'Alene makes me wish he put Spokane on the list
Was also going "Ben? Where's Spokane? Spokane should be on this list!" Lol
@@RavingRozeComms Honestly, I just didn't think Spokane was hard enough! But I'll put it down for next time!
The pronunciation of Cœur D’Alene makes me irrationally angry
I was waiting for someone to be angry about the Sault. “Soo! How is that Soo?” It happened every time someone from out of state visited 😂
Bummed we didn't get reactions to the correct pronunciation of Nachitoches. I have to imagine that was a real mindbender
That depends....the Texas one is natch-i-toch-ez, and the Louisiana one is nack-o-dish. Thanks, nationwide call center experience...
The Texas one is spelled different- Natchadoches - whereas the Louisiana one used in the quiz is more pronounced nack-ah-dish rather than nack-o-dish.
I couldn't remember if they were spelled the same way or not. Thanks for the clarification!
@@mom5catskyle596 The Texas one is actually spelled Nacogdoches and it rhymes with bag a roaches!
@@Ben_Brainard
As a Texan, it's not a bad descriptor either.
Wilkes-Barre has 3 different pronunciations depending on who you ask. People that live there don't even pronounce it the same way lmao.
As someone from that area, I’ve exclusively heard it as Willks Bear
Also from the area, frequently hear Wilks Berry
I know my local weatherman calls it Wilkes-Bar
@@rtk142that's how Pittsburgh says it when talking about the Baby Pens.
And with New Orleans, I have been told 3 different proper names
As a PA native I’m crying at Schuylkill (sko-kul) and Wilkes-Barre (depends on who you ask)
Bala Cymwyd should've been hear. People native to the state get it wrong.
Yeah, it was pretty funny though!
I didn't know Schuylkill but got Wilkes-Barre. I'm from swpa.
Totally!!
At least we didn't have to listen to them butcher all of Philly's Welsh train station towns.
Native New Englander here. Like Worcester and Glocester, there's no hard C in Scituate, so "SIT-chew-it" is the correct pronunciation (you will also regularly hear "SICH-wit" depending on the local accent).
As a New Englander, he went easy on them by not using some of the more difficult East Coast names. And I don't mean the easy hard ones like Glocester (GLOSS-ter), Leominster (LEMON-ster), Leicester (Lester), Barnstable (BARN-stuh-bul), Billerica (Bill-RICK-uh), Prybar (Pribber), and Mianus (my-ON-iss (thought to derive from the name of Native American chieftain Mayanno)). I mean the _hard_ ones like Mooselookmeguntic, Peyapehacsett, Seipican, Wequassett, Wesquadomeset, and the famous Lake Chaubunagungamaug (which is itself short for Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg).
And then there are some that are technically pronounced the way they're spelled but the locals often don't call them that. For example, if you hear anyone mention Woonyville, P-town, or Li'l Compy, they're talking about Woonsocket, Provincetown, and Little Compton.
I knew there was no hard 'c'! I talk to people all over the country and learn all the pronunciations.
Y'all run out of English names to pilfer and started stealing from the Welsh or something?
@@curiousKuro16 Indigenous American. The New England nations were mostly of the Algonquian language group.
The most underrated and my favorite Massachusetts mispronunciation is Quincy. The locals say Quinzy with a Z. And I still can’t figure out why 😂 I grew up in Western MA and I thought it was Quincy until I was riding the T and the automated announcements kept saying “Quinzy”
And Peabody is “Peh-buddy.” Why do we mispronounce such simple towns, Massholes? 😂
As an Oregonian, I loved hearing all of the ways they tried to pronounce Willamette 😂
People don't even pronounce the state name correctly half the time so we all come to expect something wild to come out when people try.
only reason I know is Dead Rising xD
Good ol’ Organ, just south of Warshington.
Willamette Valley was on their list... Willamette is a city, county, a name for falls, etc. Willamette Valley is a span on land between our mountain range and our coastal areas.
I got that one right but I'm from Puyallup so we both got a raw deal lol
I always tell people (Native Oregonian myself), it's Willamette, Damn-it. I heard that one when they were filming the TV Show Grimm here. That's what they used to teach all the actors how to pronounce Willamette.
This feels like your bid to be the Alex Horne of American taskmaster and honestly I’m here for it 😂
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I wouldn't be opposed by the USA be version of taskmaster...the less said the better.
Ha ha! Love it. It would be so much better than the actual attempt that came out (weirdly with Brit actor Freddie Highmore as a contestant). But it was a massive flop… so that’s not saying much! Of all the offshoots, I’d say the NZ one is the most successful at maintaining the same ethos while still offering something unique.
@@Ben_BrainardI haven't seen any other version of Taskmaster besides the UK version but if Ben becomes the US version of Alex Horne, I might watch it. Definitely got Alex Horne vibes from this video.
I've been thinking Ben would make a great contestant on a re-booted American Taskmaster, but you're absolutely right. He's giving off Taskmaster's Assistant vibes here and would absolutely own the role.
Mackinac is in Michigan. (The doc says Wisconsin.) The island and the bridge go with Mackinac spelling. The city goes with Mackinaw City. Within town there is no consistency. Businesses use both spellings.
FYI: you need to include the state. Several of these are duplicated in other states where they are pronounced as expected.
I think he did in the ones they were reading. They seemed to know what state they were dealing with
Versailles is pronounced the same as KY here in MO
Happy to see some New England names out there still kicking outsider butts! (It's a point of pride for us)
The Worcester one hurt and made me laugh at the same time.
Would love to see them pronouncing Leicester
I only know how to say it because of the Something to Wrestle With podcast and Brother Love teaching someone to say it.
@@joehung1552 I only know how to say it cuz I umped them when they played in the state finals in softball 6 years ago or so
I would love to see them do Leominster.
As someone who lives near Wilkes-Barre, we say bar, berry or bear. We even have shirt with pictures of a bear, raspberry, and bar of soap ask "which are you?"
This is brilliant ! Lol i newd to find one for my best friends parents🤣
Ben, you should do this with the fans, hopefully several times.
Also, you misspelled ‘Tooele’.
I came to the comments just to say that Tooele was misspelled. Glad you beat me to it.
This bothered me more than the pronunciation of Tooele
Me too!!!! 😂
I was coming to look for Tooele being misspelled.
I am expecting to hear many butchered Wisconsin cities 😂😂
Sadly, none were given.
Waukesha. So easy to say, but people seem to always mispronounce it. Should have happened.
I'm gonna do another round, don't worry!
Oconomowoc, Prairie du chien, weyauwega are good ones
Oh baby, can't wait to hear about ashwaubenon. Beautiful city.
I live in Spokane, Washington (spo-CAN), and the number of times I hear television people mispronounce it as spo-CANE amazes me.
I went to a robotics competition in the area and on the drive we had a conversation about the correct pronunciation, one of the people in the car was saying spo-cane. By the end of the drive my brain couldn't remember which one was actually correct, It was a very long drive.
And the number of people that mispronouce Yakima is staggering
Ah yes, Spokane the Zips capital of the world.
hah, an E at the end means it should have a long a so cane would tecnically be correct. I don't have an issue only cause I heard the name a few times before I saw the spelling, lol. It's like Coeur d'Alene, which I'd heard but never read so I didn't recognize it at all
Hello Warshinton person. Thank you for your dispensaries. Sincerely, the panhandle.
Bala Cynwyd is a township in Montgomery County PA (just outside of Philly).
People in the city sometimes can't even pronounce this right.
The 'Bala' part is easy to pronounce but it's not easy to say the Cynwyd part if you don't know any Welsh. It's pronounced like
/kin-wuhd/
Is it Welsh?
Teaching children Welsh should be considered abuse.
LOL it's in To Wong Foo :) thank you 90s drag movie icon Vida Boheme for teaching that pronunciation.
@serephita Vida Boheme is also how I know how to pronounce "Bala Cynwyd". 😂
@@carversalad7441 yeah, it's Welsh.
I clicked so fast with schuylkill in the thumbnail. So there's the Schuylkill river and also the Schuylkill expressway (76) that follows it. My family is from the Philly area and refers to both as the "sure-kill," cause either the river pollution or traffic will get ya.
Bonus hard to pronounce city that's next to the Schuylkill river, Bala Cynwyd
Same! The minute I saw Schuykill I thought “This is going to be fun!” For the longest time I thought it was spelled Sgoogle because I was a tiny child and only knew it auditorily. Funny to think about now!
I work in Puyallup, I was really wanting to see their reactions to that. Especially the person who said they were there and kept getting corrected, and still said it wrong
Same! I really wanted to hear what they'd have to say!
I'm always amused whenever I'd call the theater for showtimes and the robo voice would pronounce it wrong. Had a friend move here from indiana and they never have remembered how to pronounce it correctly.
I love getting people from out of state(or even sometimes out of town) to try and pronounce it. And its always so funny to hear it pronounced wrong bc its always been pronounced correctly to me so i just don’t get how people get it wrong. But i like seeing the struggle
As a huge fan of the International Phonetic Alphabet, seeing your pronunciation guides did physically hurt me, but I understand why you wrote them like that
As an Oregonian, them not getting Willamette Valley hurts my soul. Bet they also mispronouce Oregon as well. XD
The number of people who also mispronounce Pendleton. Ahhhh, it makes me want to punch something 😅
You should do comparisons. Concord NC vs Concord, MA Beaufort nc vs Beaufort, sc
Yes!!!
That'd be fun!
I once learned to pronounce schuylkill for a school project and this made me irrationally angry so did Mackinac
i refused to believe schuylkill was pronounced skookull until i went to a university that has a res hall named after it
You'll love this spelling exception. Mackinaw City is the only one spelled the way it's pronounced. Mackinac Island, the Mackinac Bridge, Fort Michilimackinac...all pronounced with a W sound.
@@npost224KU?
I love the hints in the pronunciation guide 😂. Born in Washington, I knew all 4 of the Pacific Northwest ones, but only a few of the others that I was familiar with already.
Virginia has a bunch of cities that people tend to pronounce wrong: Gloucester (gloss-ter), Poquoson (puh-ko-son), McGaheysville (ma-gack-ees-ville), Chincoteague (chin-co-teeg), Staunton (stan-ton). There's a lot of British & Native American influence on city names but not necessarily in the pronunciation itself.
I’m a northern VA native now working in Lexington, VA and the locals say I still pronounce Buena, vista wrong. They pronounce it b-when-ah vih-stah. There’s also Norfolk (nor-fuk), Pulaski (pew-lass-ski), and Buchanan (buck-an-on) just to name a few
Definitely hoping to see the reaction to Natchitoches. Wonder how they would’ve reacted to Ouachita.
I never would've thought that Poughkeepsie would end up on this list. No Schenectady?
Skaneateles is a top candidate in my book. I also don’t agree with how he said Cayuga.
@@Perfect5Recurveoh that would've been a good one. And I also agree with the disagreement lmao
@@Perfect5RecurveI remember learning the pronunciation on that one. Are there different pronunciations of it?
@@Teal_Blastoise The average person will say kay vs kai where kai is correct. Ben then followed it with yo-guh instead of yu-guh which is not correct. Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ is how it's written in Cayuga- Gai-yo-ko-no and its yo there but not English.
@@Perfect5Recurve cool. What about Skaneateles?
As a Franco-Ontarian, I KNOW how to pronounce Sault Ste. Marie.🤣
For once, hockey came in handy for me because I knew Wilkes-Barre and Sault Ste. Marie 😂
Secaucus, New Jersey is a good one.
Pronounce like sea-caw-cus.
Some took this so personal. 🤣
Happy to see the new England cities!
Also, not sure how many Scituate cities there are, but the one in RI is pronounced without the c like one of the guys said. Like the start of situation 🤣
Yes, the one in Massachusetts is pronounced that way too.
Two more Michigan ones for you, Ben!
- Saline (suh-LEEN)
- Milan (MY-lin)
I once met a man looking for directions to both Saline and Milan... only he kept saying "say-line" and "mill-AHN" even after I corrected him.
As a Florida transplant to Washington, I *knew* Puyallup was gonna be in that list. I STILL can't get it right after three dang years and literally having to say the word EVERY DAY
If you hadn't included Puyallup I'd have been disappointed. I've heard Amtrak conductors mispronounce it. (Also, remember... IT'S WILLAMETTE, DAMMIT!)
The man bun signifies that he has yet to find a worthy opponent in state trivia
Idk why but this tickled me🤣🤣 Made me think of Liu Kang or Shang Tsung in MK
I love that Ben just reused an old video where he tortured himself with these city names. So now he tortures his friends. This is great.
You could make an entire list based off the pacific northwest cities here's a few just from Washington: Spokane, Yakima, Issaquah, Snoqualmie.
Multnomah, Naches
Pend Orielle. My personal favorite, from Oregon: Champoeg.
I don't live there (I lived in Anchorage), but "Taitetlek" in Alaska is pronounced:
tuh-TIT-lik
It is a bit of a shibboleth to see if you can pronounce it.
You need to do an all Washington state episode. Just 2 of the cities I've lived in are Snohomish and Sequim. There are a lot of wonderful and strange city and location names in Washington.
Don’t forget Walla Walla, WA!
As someone who lives in the Willamette Valley it's always funny hearing people say it wrong at this point 😂
I feel he might have put that on there because every told him he pronounced it wrong in the Oregon video
My mother grew up in South Dakota. As I was learning the state capitals in elementary school, I made the mistake of pronouncing Pierre the French way. I have not done so again. LOL. (Of course, this is coming from a girl, who around the same age, insisted that the Soviet Union was pronounced "Soviet Onion", my logic being that there was a country named Turkey, so why not an Onion, too? ::sigh:: (I learned my lesson on that one, too, I'm proud to say.)
I'm amazed at how many I got right (20). Granted, we have a town in Wisconsin that the letters were literally pulled from a hat by a kid and rearranged into something pronounceable. And I'm from Ohio and lived in Michigan for a few years. Those towns weren't too bad. Toele stumped me for certain as did Weaubleau.
Ahh, good old Ixonia
Weaubleau is like a half hour away from me and I still know people that can’t pronounce it. Don’t beat yourself up.
Is that how Ixonia got named? That makes sense.
I love pronouncing Macinac wrong around certain friends just to irritate them lol
To the best of my knowledge, how were NO Wisconsin towns listed?
Oconomowoc
@@sensorglitchmy coworkers from there. Can’t remember how to pronounce it though.
I'm not even American and I know how to pronounce Sault Ste. Marie, Wilkes-Barre and Mackinac so it was fun seeing others struggle with them, I would've missed like everything else though lol
I think being American was being a disadvantage in this 😂
I wish you would have shown their reactions to "Nack-uh-dish". Or it's rival city across the state line in Texas of Nacogdoches. Fun fact about those two towns, they both have a college in them and as per sacred southern tradition they are fierce rivals in football with a sorta racist trophy that is passed to the school that wins the annual game. The trophy is known as Chief Caddo and is a wooden statue of a native American that could be referred as a "cigar store indian".
Oh, so it's like Sault Ste Marie, MI playing Sault Ste Marie, Ontario in hockey every year
I'm from Louisiana, and I heard a story about the origin of the two names of these cities (don't know if this is true or not though). In short terms there was an indean chief that sent out both of his sons to find new land to claim. They both started walking in opposite directions and ended up at their respective towns.
Side Note: Nachitoches is considered historical land, so they are not able to widen the roads. It makes driving there a pain. They have also only replaced the main brick road once (as far as I know), and won't do it again.
I was so excited that I knew how to pronounce "Boerne" (solely because I recently visited it). Got 5 total, which is frankly better than I would have expected.
I live in Washington state we are known for having difficult city names. Sequim, Pend Oreille, Skagit, Snohomish, Wahkiakum, Tulalip, Steilacoom, and Mukilteo are my favorites.
I knew Worchester and Louisville because of your Table series.
Schuylkill (sp?) I think i got close. (Although i was saying skull-kill). I forgot how Wilkes-Barre was said. (Im from PA but have never been to either).
I knew Mobile.
Figured out Pierre
I was close with Duchesne (i was saying it like Duquesne)
Forgot Mackinac.
Was "Versailles" more like Vur-say?
No, it’s if an English speaker pronounces is if they didn’t know French. Ver-sails
I’m also from PA! Near the Philadelphia region. I’m pretty sure that Schuykill is pronounced Skoo-kul.
So glad this all lead off with a city name that even people who live in Louisville sometimes disagree about. 😄 Also, love that Versailles was also on here.
Everyone missing Mackinac island hurt me as a former Michigander
Tbf i totally expected it, the native spelling fucks up everyone 😂😂
I'm not even from Michigan and I got that one right.
I laughed because no one even tried Puyallup and no got the Willamette Valley. Living in Washington State, and realizing a lot of the places are Indian names, and not Spanish.
Places like:
Yakima
Buena (nope it is not Spanish for thank you)
Also, knew a lot of them including Pierre, SD (born in SD, raised in Washington).
Thanks for the hilarious video.
Was so excited to hear about this video at your Milwaukee show, even more excited to watch it!!!
As someone who grew up in upstate NY, I'm going to have to disagree with how you pronounced Cayuga. CJ had it right. I've only ever heard people say kai-YOO-gah. That's "Yoo" like the word you or in huge.
(Also I'm still disappointed Chili, NY and Cairo, NY haven't made it into one of these place name videos)
Okay, so: you are correct on Cayuga. I had it in my head that I had written Cuyahoga (the Ohio one) and so I was telling people wrong😅
please be careful at the upcoming NY shows, as a transplant who had to learn a bunch of these town from a local BF, they get oh so confused by mispronounced names
@@firstdog314 Oh yeah can confirm. If you said Cayuga the way he did in this video but without the context/visible spelling, I'd have no clue where he's talking about.
On the flip side, even as someone who grew up with these names I still get irrationally angry at every town that clearly pronounces its name wrong like Cairo, Chili, or Corinth
I would love it if you did a video like this again with the Utah city names of Hurricane (Ben already went over how we pronounce it in his Utah names video), Scipio (pronounced Sip-ee-oh), and Sevier (pronounced Severe)
Tremonton tripped me up when I first moved to Utah.
Ben! _HOW_ could you forget Peabody, Massachusetts?!
Thank you again for coming to Boston definitely the coolest celebrity I meet after a show just seamed like a hang out with friends the way you talk to everyone in line was so cool was a great show as well
I hope Beatrice, Ne is on here.
I love how nobody would guess it's pronounced "bee-A-triss" because that's the only way you could hear them shout the name of the train stop back in the day. That's the only reason.
Also could have fun with all the different pronunciations of Norfolk and Louisville. Both have like 3 different ways to say them.
That's just the standard pronunciation of the English name Beatrice.
Yeah, Beatrice isn’t that hard because it’s a common girl’s name. Most people can pronounce it easy.
@@WooffzTheCoon Nope, they say bee as in the flying honey maker, a as in at, then triss and the accent is on the a right in the middle. The woman's name is pronounced Bee as in the flying honey maker, uh triss with the accent on the Bee and a secondary accent on the triss.
I agree fully, even a person from Nebraska has said Beatrice wrong (for the Nebraska way) and Norfolk has a surprise r sound
@@TeeganLee Normally you'd pronounce it "BEE-ah-trice", but the city is called "bee-AAH-trice".
Not only is the emphasis moved, but the A is also the A sound in "cat", not an "uh" sound.
That was fun to watch. And I knew some of them. From here and there. But no it is not them at all. I was right there with them on a lot of them. The extras were cute too.
Wooo saw the short and was waiting for this XD can't wait! 💙
As a native Oregonian, Willamette Valley is the territory spanning between the coastal area and the mountains. There is a city called Willamette, we have the Willamette Falls, and streets named after Willamette. Champoeg, Chehalem, The Dalles, Lebanon.... other REALLY good names. Why the whole valley when naming cities, though?
Coeur d'Alene means heart of the awl, based on what I remember. You should try to pronounce Lake Pend Orielle (ID) and Sequim (WA). Those threw me for a loop as a kid.
Parsippany (NJ) Once pronounced by my ex as Par-sip-panny.
Omg I'm from Parsippany too!! Now in Kansas but way to rep our town!! ❤😂
I'm from New York, and the amount of people that live here that cannot pronounce Irondequoit even relatively closely is astounding and always brings a laugh or two. My favorite of which was a buddy of mine calling it "Iron Depot" (like Home Dept) 😂
Honestly, interesting that out of 30 possible cities, this applies to 3 towns within an hour's drive of me.
I know how to pronounce Mackinac because of their bridge that leads into the UP. I know how to pronounce Mobile because I live near it. I guess I pronounce New Orleans wrong since even though it's an easy drive over there... AND I've been there... "Or-lenz" Nah... "Or-leeenz". Lol. But you have to admit Florida has a lot of complicated named cities.
Just watching them try to pronounce Mackinac made me die laughing. I didn’t think I was that hard to pronounce
I was waiting to see if someone asked what you mean by “the up” ⬆️
@@tessgonzalez you have sparked something new for me to be excited about ty
You need to do a Massachusetts edition of this!
I told my Utah friend how to pronounce Cochituate and he said "like a peanut in Spanish?"
As a native Washingtonian I’m always entertained when people try to pronounce Puyallup. Another good one here is Dosewallips.
Best response ever: "do they even know what it means?" "Oh absolutely not, it's Idaho." As a born Idahoan, can confirm. To this day I don't know what it means because I'm too lazy to look it up.
Having my bf play this game. It's gonna be great. He's not gonna get most of them. Only one he'll get is Kissimmee cause he lived there.
I'll never understand why people put an H in Worcester.
The sauce
@@Ben_Brainard Ok but the sauce doesn't have an H either, unless you count the one in "shire."
lol "Mack-kinnic"
MAC-in-awe. It's a cool little island where the only motorized vehicles there are emergency vehicles. Gotta take a ferry to get there.
Or, for the fort, "For michilimackinac," for some real fun.
More of these kinds of videos I love them
I don't know which state you picked that Scituate comes from. But if it's Massachusetts it's sit-chew-it (NOT skit-chew-it). The "c" is silent
I don't know if the Scituate he's talking about is somewhere else, but in MA the "c" is silent.
There is a "Scituate" in RI, too.
I’d love to see some of Southern Illinois’s Little Egypt names. Specifically Vienna (with an emphasis on the I) and Cairo (Karo, like the syrup)
As someone from Wilkes-Barre, anyone who actually pronounces the E at the end will be judged harshly at any given time
Coeur d'Alene is French for "Lake of Ear" because it's shaped like an ear! Most Idaho people can't spell it though and usually just write CDA.
Yeah...no. That's definitely not what it means in French. Nice try, though.
"Lake of ear" sounds like something a witch would need for a potion.
The Lake of the Ear is the lake near the town. I think that person must be from California.
According to wikipedia Alene is a stiching awl. And Coeur d'Alene (heart of the stiching awl) is the French name of a native tribe.
You’re thinking of Pend Oreille, a deeper lake to the north, but the name actually refers to the dangling earrings of the native people. The resemblance to a ear from the air is incidental - but if you turn it south up it looks like a sea monster.
i used to live near both albany and lebanon in oregon, all three of those get mispronounce by people sometimes and it really showed how out of town they were, also i have cousins that live in Puyallup and i only heard the city name for years before seeing it's spelling so i had a slight advantage at getting it correct
i'm also going to Naches in washington for a family reunion soon, and that's not how it's pronounced either
I got (Will Ammett) because of the Small town Murder podcast.
In kentucky we have Lebanon and Lebanon Junction. They are not pronounced the same.
How do you pronounce Albany and Lebanon? We have rhose two here in New York also
@@jrpapi5 for albany its more of how the regional accent pronounces "all", oregon and new york pronounce those different, and ive just heard lebanon pronounced like the one in the middle east and in oregon it's just leba-nin, i've never heard how new york pronounces that one
Just a heads up, the pronunciation list links to your shot list for the video instead lmao, great vid tho, loved seeing Puyallup on there
I'm shocked no one go Worcester, it was in your videos multiple times
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You spelt Tooele wrong lol
That's what I was going to say....
I'm from NC and there are several towns here that get pronounced wrong, but my favorite is hearing people trying to pronounce Fuquay-Varina lol. The amount of people who get that one wrong is astonishing 😂
I did pretty bad, but i got wilkes-barre and schuylkill, whcich are the only ones i need to know in everyday
That leads me to believe you live in or around Philly or have family around here.
@@Machodave2020 well puzzled, internet stranger
Did they not see your video of you doing this?😂😂
As someone who grew up near Weaubleau and Versailles, MO, thank you for this 😂
As a North Carolinian, we need a Round 2 featuring the city of Conetoe
And Chicomacomico! And Saxapahaw!
As other comments have said you could make an entire episode of people trying to pronounce pacific northwest names like Spokane, Yakima, Kennewick, Sequim, Naches, or Walla Walla and believe it or not some people have even mispronounced Everett all these names are only from Washington as well
As a PA resident I also took a double take when I learned how Schuylkill was pronounced. Wilkes-barre was an easy one though
None of them got Worcester right although it's probably the most corrected out of all of them. Also the story about the pronouncing of one of them being explained first thing on the homepage kinda reminds me how Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch has both the pronunciation and a translation from Welsh to English written on the sign.
Tbf, even people who live in Wilkes-Barre can't agree on how to pronounce Wilkes-Barre
These transitions are so strange but oddly pleasing xD
I've never yelled Schuylkill so loudly at a screen before
Seeing no one get Mackinac or Sault Ste. Marie correct physically pained me
I worked at the Cayuga Nature Center and we all said Kay-ou-ga... I guess pronunciations have slipped.
Surprised we didn't have more from NY/LI ❤😂 those plus PA were like a wave from a friend. Thank you Ben!
I saw this in "previews" and what you did with is perfect, Ben
The one woman said that she didn't even get her home state right. I thought, "There's no place don't know at least roughly where it is or exactly how to say it. I wonder why she didn't know her own state correctly."
Then I realized. I have lived in Oklahoma all my life, and we have WEATHER. I grew up watching at least one out of three meteorologists point out what cities and towns were in danger of tornado damage soon. When you see a map with all the place names written on it for a few hours or more on TV a couple of times a year, and hear all the names pronounced with a little fear (the good meteorologist) or a little excitement (the other two), you learn how to say them and where they are pretty indelibly.
Fun game, man.
I grew up in Niskayuna which is a suburb of Schenectady, both in NYS. When I was little I lived in Metairie LA. Please use these it would make me happy.
As someone from Scituate I always love seeing people trying to find out how to pronounce it! (It’s pronounced sit-chew-it)
Europe called, "If you're going to borrow our city names, please, at least pronounce them correctly. Or even better, come up with your own."
Don't know if this counts, but the region I live in is CONSTANTLY mispronounced by people who don't live here: Okanagan, oh-can-ah-guhn (the Americans who share it prounce it oh-can-a-gan)