Don_Dickle to Today I LearnedEnglish • 18 days agoTIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas"en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square62arrow-up1153arrow-down18
arrow-up1145arrow-down1external-linkTIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas"en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle to Today I LearnedEnglish • 18 days agomessage-square62
minus-square@ninjabardlinkEnglish2•18 days agoTexas has so many. Bogota pronounced buh-GO-duh Arkansas has a Lafayette county pronounced luh-FAY-it even though that county literally borders Louisiana. Don’t even get me started on Bowie, DeKalb, or Houston.
minus-square@ripcordlinkEnglish1•18 days agoAh yes. “Hoo-ston” and “How-ston” are definitely both things. “De-kab” and “De-kalb” Haven’t run into the Bowie one.
minus-square@ninjabardlinkEnglish2•edit-218 days agoIn Texas it’s Boo-wee. That was the man’s name as is the knife that bears it. Outside of Texas people mispronounce it as Bow-ee like Ziggy Stardust. If you’re talking about David (rest in power) Bowie, then it’s Bow-ee. But the knife is Boo-wee.
minus-squareflickerlinkEnglish1•18 days agoI’m gonna add one I love trotting out from Oklahoma. There’s a Miami, Oklahoma. It’s pronounced My-am-uh. I’ve got about a billion from Oklahoma specifically.
minus-square@ninjabardlinkEnglish1•17 days agoThere’s a Miami in Arizona the locals pronounce the same way.
Texas has so many. Bogota pronounced buh-GO-duh
Arkansas has a Lafayette county pronounced luh-FAY-it even though that county literally borders Louisiana.
Don’t even get me started on Bowie, DeKalb, or Houston.
Ah yes. “Hoo-ston” and “How-ston” are definitely both things.
“De-kab” and “De-kalb”
Haven’t run into the Bowie one.
In Texas it’s Boo-wee. That was the man’s name as is the knife that bears it. Outside of Texas people mispronounce it as Bow-ee like Ziggy Stardust.
If you’re talking about David (rest in power) Bowie, then it’s Bow-ee. But the knife is Boo-wee.
I’m gonna add one I love trotting out from Oklahoma.
There’s a Miami, Oklahoma. It’s pronounced My-am-uh.
I’ve got about a billion from Oklahoma specifically.
There’s a Miami in Arizona the locals pronounce the same way.