Best Western Washington Place Name

No [...], no credibility

[...] is Central Washington

You are [...]

Puyallup?

Leland [...] Palmer

xp - well, yeah. no, wait...

Found it!

i voted hoh head but juan de fuca was a close second

Places I've been to or passed through:

Dungeness Spit
Enumclaw
Nooksack
Point Defiance
Point No-Point
Shookumchuck River

Places I WISH I've been to or passed through because OMG THE NAME:

Big Chiwaukum
Dosewallips State Park
Gobbler's Knob
Hoh Head
Humptulips
Spencer Spit State Park
Utsalady
Mt Wow

(there's a lot above I've been through, but I only mentioned the ones which have imho the most outstanding names)

useless bay was not on there

on the poll list

totally pwned by lingbert

Big Chiwaukum and Gobbler's Knob are mountains

Isn't SeaTac an airport?

it is also a place

http://www.ci.seatac.wa.us/

OK, that's just insane.

http://www.attrition.ws/index~Hike_Review~Gobblers_Knob_Mt._Rainier_National_Park_Washington~page~hikeoverview~HikeInstanceID~68.cfm

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Entering_Humptulips.jpg

Hoh Head & Oil City

http://www.grandcanyontreks.org/olympic3.htm

Mt. Wow

http://www.peakbagger.com/map/TsvMap.aspx?t=2x2&s=12&z=10&e=584078&n=5180520

I kind of like the word "puyallup" cause it sounds like some sort of cowboy phrase. I also like "sequim" for the mysterious silent "E".

But you missed out on this:
http://www.rtc.wa.gov/programs/mtp/skamania/images/Skamania.gif

I'm totally shocked that there wasn't a mid 90's ska-punk band with this name.

Actually, I missed the fact that Skamania is indeed listed.

Hoh Head & Oil City

http://www.grandcanyontreks.org/olympic3.htm

haha there's a hoh beach!

I thought this was going to be about a motel in Washington Place Name.

Best Western Washington Best Western

Someone should totally do a comprehensive Best Best Western poll

Mt. WOW!!

GOAT ISLAND MOUNTAIN

This was one of the toughest polls in a LONG time.

The best thing about Puyallup is the hazing anyone gets when he or she mispronounces it.

"'POO-YAH-lup'? Like, you didn't know? 'pew-AL-ip'. omg."

Provinciality in location pronunciation in WA isn't nearly as bad as it is in OR, though.

Try saying "WILLA-met river" in Portland. Go ahead.

much less, "Ore-GONE"

too many to love.

thank u to my sockpuppets for giving me extra votes

gonna go phinney ridge with my first vote. got to rep the neighborhood.

I've always pronounced Willamette correctly, but I still mostly pronounce Puyallup Pee-yal-lip

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pichuan/2368077366/sizes/l/

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Been to or thru:

Admiralty Inlet
Alki Point
Alpine Lakes Wilderness
Anacortes
Bainbridge Island
Ballard
Bellingham
Bothell
Black Diamond
Burien
Camano Island
Centralia
Cle Elum
Concrete
Deception Pass
Denny Regrade
Eastsound
Ebey's Landing
Enumclaw
Friday Harbor
Gig Harbor
Gold Bar
Issaquah
King County
Kitsap County
Kittitas
La Conner
Lake Forest Park
Leavenworth
Moclips
Moran State Park
Mountlake Terrace
Muckleshoot Indian Reservation
Mukilteo
Olympia
Orcas
Phinney Ridge
Pill Hill
Pioneer Square
Point Defiance
Puget Sound
Puyallup
Ravenna
Lake Sammamish
Sauk River
SeaTac
Sedro Woolley
Sequim
Skagit Valley
Skykomish
Snohomish
Snoqualmie Pass
Spirit Lake
Startup
Steilacoom
Stillaguamish Riveer
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Tukwila
Tulalip
Tumwater
Wenatchee
Yakima

I vote Mukilteo, but I may be biased because I more or less grew up there. Puyallup and Humptulips are A+++ WWPNs, tho. Some of these places aren't in western Washington. (Wenatchee? Yakima? wtvrs.)

[...] is Central Washington

Yakima was the last one I added, partly because I thought someone might complain about its absence

Dude a bunch of those are in central WA. You fucked up. And you left out Tahola.

I intentionally included a bunch in Central WA, and Tahola among others wasn't cool enough for my semi-arbitrary criteria, being a cheap Tahoma knock-off for one thing.

Naw, homie. It ain't like that.

TELL EM WHY YOU MAD!

http://www.mathewbrowne.com/images/yuppie.jpg

Denny Regrade - geez

Phinney Ridge sounds like the sight of wild west shoot 'em up fun!

I'm totally shocked that there wasn't a mid 90's ska-punk band with this name.

http://www.amazon.com/Greetings-Skamania-Skatalites/dp/B000000DYQ/ref=pd_bxgy_m_img_a

http://z.about.com/d/animatedtv/1/0/J/3/ephellisotherrobots.jpg <---- bothell

oh my god dudes i was born and raised in puyallup. it's pronounced p'yollip. It is known for having the fourth largest fair in the country. the scones are nice.

"Back home in Washington State, there's the town Sequim (pronounced "Skwim") and also Puyallup (which often gets transposed to "Pyoo-allup"), but I don't think we've ever had a scifi author document such stuff."

http://www.languagehat.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=2868

haha I just thought of that old Ms commercial with Edgar Martinez teaching the new players how to say "I took my geoduck to Puyallup"

"geoduck" is pronounced "gooey-duck" btw

Once our visit with Ninna ended Cher, Kenz, and I hauled our buns to a town called Puyallup, in WA. Pronounced Pee-ya'll-up....yeah try saying THAT 10 times fast!

http://rosyash.blogspot.com/2008/10/road-trip-bday-halloween-treats-autumn.html

I have never, not once, heard a Washingtonian say "pee-yall-up". This is local pride 101 shit.

i have spent much time in Washington, Rev

jaq otm gabb off the mark
know a buncha guys who grew up there and that's what they say
and hey the tribe, so we'll go with that

i agree most people say pyoo, even the tribe. i'm arguing they're all transposing.

ok

Gabb, whether you've spent time here or not, it's like... if I came on a thread about places in New York and tried to school you on how to say "Schenectady", that would be mad foul, right?

pronunciation's more about what people say and not how you read it

cmon worcester amirite

i'm not really into usage-changes

xxp exactly

when did it change? you want to pinpoint that or are we going to go on your word?

Rev, that would be aight with me

(also, who started this thread? ;)

i wish if i started a thread i could never be wrong on it then

;)

i'm not really into usage-changes

― gabbneb, Monday, November 24, 2008 10:25 PM Bookmark

That thread where Geir said "I refuse to accept recontextualization" seems to have disappeared. : (

hi guys, have you been to humptulips?

i passed through once
it's more nowhere than forks

ok this is fun but i'm off to fremont now. guys wish me luck in not only the center of western washington, but the center of the universe

Nope, but I go out the coast around Moclips/Tahola every summer or two, past signs pointing the way to Humptulips. I've even been partway down Moclips-Humptulips road, but not all the way to Humptulips. This is a great failing of mine.

I heard A Journey to the Center of the Earth looks just like Fremont.

(Rev, I lived in Seattle at least part of all but 2 summers until i was 17. my parents lived there for 2-3 years before that. my Sister has lived there for almost a decade. she'll probly tell me i'm wrong.)

Alright, well then you've lived here damn well long enough to know how to pronounce Puyallup.

*sticks tongue out and stamps away in a hissy-fit*

The Merriam's take.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggpuya01.wav=Puyallup

HYOO-stun street, not HOW-stun street... pfffff!

(x)WATHA-loop-eh street, not GWADA-loop street... Austin edition

rev, jerg, patchouli and hemp fats can survive really hot temperatures, even core of the earth level!

o my earthy reusable bag luvvin' fremont

Ya Ho Wa 13, the ultimate rock wizard dude, is playing at Nectar Lounge on December 15th by the way. This will be the Dante's Hippie Inferno show of them all.

http://media.timeoutnewyork.com/resizeImage/htdocs/export_images/653/653.x600.mr.yahowha13.prev.jpg?

http://www.lefthip.com/images/2007/12/the-source-family.jpg

Not really safe for work but...

http://sychmusic.com/images/ya-ho-take.jpg

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/yawo.jpg

Humptulips is a sad nowhere deforested place. We drive through on the way to Kalaloch (Klay-lock) and Ruby beach. Was over in Sequim picking quince 2 weeks ago. Has anyone been up to the casino in Tulalip for a show yet? I've been wondering what the venue is like.

We checked out the Tulalip casino this past weekend and it's actually pretty nice, you know, as far as such places go. Might look into going to a show there, but couldn't look in to see the room as some rapper (Swag? That can't be right) was shooting a video so I've no idea of what the venue's like.

Camped at Kalaloch in July and it was pretty nice, though I liked camping on Whidbey more. We went to Third Beach at around 7 am after camping at Kalaloch to see the tide pools and scramble around on the rocks. I especially enjoyed the signs warning of the deadly logs:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/3060944738_7b5b0dddba.jpg

This picture was the creepiest thing I've seen in Washington State so far (in a photo shop in Port Angeles):
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3043/3060944766_6374576795.jpg

Anyone know what these bright yellow flowering shrub things are in the ditches near Humptulips and other places along the 101? The girlfriend said they're weeds but I thought they were beautiful.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3073/3060125549_69e72cccd4.jpg

There actually was an electro band from Oly called Le Push.

Devo played the Puyallup fair last year.

Those yellow things are gorse, aka Scotch broom. Up close, the flowers look sort of like a snapdragon.

fyi gorse and scotch broom are different plants (different genus and everything). i'm actually not that familiar with gorse, but i know it's covered in spikes, and scotch broom isn't. i guess they look kinda similar. both are invasive plants. not sure which one is in that picture.

when it's flowering, scotch broom looks nice in freeway medians and other kinds of places. when it isn't flowering, it looks shitty and makes all the places it grows look like weedy waste areas.

Thanks lingbert, i didn't know that. Mr. Jaq always calls it scotch broom (which he's allergic to), but who knows? I've seen it grown intentionally in people's yards, trimmed into nice shrubby shapes, maybe because it's so drought tolerant.

Hm, wiki says brooms and gorses are both subfamily Faboideae of legume family Fabaceae?

i would like to visit washington some time

http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/large/1acc9bba-8aee-418d-b2a3-b34aa3e9f595.jpg

http://www.yakimacanyonradboarder.zoomshare.com/my_images/fronttshirt.jpg

same family, but different genus.

i'm sure some people like scotch broom. i've heard it (maybe the flowers, not sure exactly) can be used as a kind of mild hallucinogenic, and the reason some guy first brought it over from europe was so that he could still enjoy the effects of his fave happy plant, but i think that might be an urban legend.

i associate it with weed-pulling and disturbed sites and seeing it overrun areas, so i guess my associations aren't positive, but despite that, i just don't think it looks pleasing. i have never seen anyone trim it, though, so maybe i'm missing out.

i will say that one positive aspect about it is pulling it out. it is very satisfying to pull an 8 foot scotch broom plant out with a weed wrench.

weed wrench pix plz

The neighborhood in Madrona, around 33rd, had some people using it creatively in their yards and that bit between the sidewalk and the curb. The flowers are nice, I think. But it is a scrubby plant w/o much going for it in the foliage department - it reminds me too much of the scraggily low-water plants we were happy to grow in AZ - jojoba, winterfat, creosote bush.

maybe it looks nice when it flowers, but it doesn't flower for the majority of the year. it seems like why would you pick that plant when you could pick something that looks nice even when it isn't flowering. and something that has less of a lasting impact on the surroundings. scotch broom seeds (according to the king county noxious weeds site) can remain viable for between 5 and 60 years. so even if you could somehow instantaneously eliminate all scotch broom plants from the state, the seeds they produced this year could germinate in 2068.

weed wrench:
http://www.weedwrench.com/images/BrochureWrenchPic.jpeg

weed wrench plus kid stoked for the weed wrench madness plus scotch broom:
http://courses.washington.edu/ehuf462/weed_wrench_boy.JPG

that's the life!