Towns in Texas and how we say'um.....

[ElDiabloTejano]

Blanco pronounced Blank-o
Cuero pronounced Kwhere-o
Ganado as guh-nayd-o
Jourdanton as jur-dn-ton

 

[TX1972]

How bout San Jacinto with the hard J?

When I lived in the San Jacinto dorms, we referred to ourselves as "San Jack" men

 

[Belldozer1]

New “Braunsfels”

damn right. My aunt has been abusing the pronunciation in this exact manner for 40+ years. There's only one "S"

 

[Belldozer1]

Hell Nueces....everyone knows that.....Dairy Queen

Speaking of THE DAIRY QUEEN in Mexia, Anna Nicole Smith
EDIT: Sorry @LonghornMM I just saw your post above about Anna Nicole Smith

 

[Belldozer1]

Not Texas related, but one that I've never gotten is Greenwich, CT, pronounced "gren-ich" Drives me nuts. IMO it should be "greenwich", as it's spelled.

How about coeur d'alene, Idaho

 

[hillcountryhorn63697005]

Nobody from where I grew up mispronounces Darrouzett, but I imagine newbies or passerby's stumble on it. "Dare zet"

Home of tasty bierox!

 

[hillcountryhorn63697005]

Uvalde
Leakey

 

[westx]

Home of tasty bierox!

Amen to that, brother

 

[DrinkToIt]

Cooper. "Cupper" with a draaaawl.

 

[DrinkToIt]

Meh-he-uh

You mean "Anna Nicole Smith."

 

[HarryBuffalo]

Boerne but when it comes to streets Kuykendall is miss pronounced in Houston a lot.

“Kirk-en-doll” - grew up in Dallas and played ball with a stud all-around athlete whose dad coached HS ball and Hayden Fry’s kid, Zack. He ended up playing for TT and became Athletic Director in Frisco. Just retired. We just called him “Kirk”.

 

[HarryBuffalo]

Anna Nichole Smith grew up in Ma-hey-a

 

[DrinkToIt]

Anna Nichole Smith grew up in Ma-hey-a

Beat ya to the punch!

 

[HarryBuffalo]

Beat ya to the punch!

No picture… doesn’t count. 😏

 

[RoboCocks21]

No picture… doesn’t count. 😏

I have that playboy issue of her, I was young and somehow got my hands on one.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

I have that playboy issue of her, I was young and somehow got my hands on one.

Yeah, we know what you got yer hands on. 👍

 

[DrinkToIt]

I have that playboy issue of her, I was young and somehow got my hands on one.

All I needed was those Guess ads to get muh-hey-off.

 

[BringBackRoyal]

No one mentioned Man-shack?

 

[outhereincali]

Let's give a shout out to Itasca, Texas and the Itasca wampus cats.

 

[oldhorn2]

hell....right in the back yard...Manchaca....pronounced...Man-shack

 

[HarryBuffalo]

hell....right in the back yard...Manchaca....pronounced...Man-shack

Had a classmate at UT who pronounced her name Man-cha-ka. Always wondered about the Man-shack origin.

 

[HarryBuffalo]

Yeah, we know what you got yer hands on. 👍

I heard it was two hands.

 

[Not Ketch]

College Station is pronounced ACES.

 

[Tex51]

Family came to town this past week. Born in SoCal, raised in the Carolinas, law school at Cornell. Live in NY. Took them for Q in Luling and beers in Fredericksburg and the NB.
During all this driving around I realized that my Yankee kin couldn't pronounce a single fvcking town properly. And the "Bexar County" sign reading made me damn near drive off into a ditch with laughter.

Anyway, made me start thinking of some of the towns we have in Texas and the names of those towns that only us Texans know how to pronounce.

Oh please-- go ahead. I'll start you off with my South Texas favorite--

Refugio

MEXIA pronounced My Hair Lol. How did that ever happen?

 

[RioBravoHorn]

Marathon

 

[Belldozer1]

Uranus

 

[westx]

Oklahoma panhandle has two towns pretty close to each other: Beaver and Hooker