Goethe is the one that really makes me weep. Like the way people pronounce Ponce de Leon in Atlanta.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
shrift - Aug 21, 2007 5:26:31 am PDT #5838 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
beekaytee - Aug 21, 2007 5:26:33 am PDT #5839 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
No kidding...huh. Language...what a crazy patchwork thing.
beekaytee - Aug 21, 2007 5:27:15 am PDT #5840 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Ponk duh Lion?
eta: Then again, in Ohio, I heard Troussant pronouced Two-sang.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2007 5:40:44 am PDT #5841 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My personal favorite is Havre de Grace, Maryland -- HAY-ver duh GRACE.
Sue - Aug 21, 2007 5:45:33 am PDT #5842 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Havre de Grace
There's a place in NS named Havre Boucher and the locals pronounce it "Harver Bushy."
Other great mangled pronunciations: Port Mouton = Port Ma-TOON, L'ardoise=LORD-ways
There is one place in NS that I have no idea how to pronounce: Necum Teuch. It's just down the road from Ecum Secum (EEK-um SEEK-um).
Ginger - Aug 21, 2007 5:51:36 am PDT #5843 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Atlanta Ponce de Leon = pahnce de lee'-on
shrift - Aug 21, 2007 5:55:24 am PDT #5844 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Because of where I grew up, I have an aptitude for pronouncing Indian place names and Polish surnames. Ypsilanti and Dowagiac and Wisniewski and Majewski!
beekaytee - Aug 21, 2007 6:02:28 am PDT #5845 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
"Harver Bushy."
Not sure why, but this strikes me as a Jossverse character name.
sumi - Aug 21, 2007 6:13:54 am PDT #5846 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
It does, doesn't it?
Either someone from Firefly or possibly more cowboy vampires.
Trudy Booth - Aug 21, 2007 6:20:07 am PDT #5847 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
My family in Indiana pronounces "Terra Haute" as "tear ho" .
Hey, it's their state... but it always cracks me up.