Best town names to say in a really dodgy approximation of the local accent

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― William Bloody Swygart, Sunday, 27 March 2011 19:44 (fourteen years ago)

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― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Sunday, 27 March 2011 20:37 (fourteen years ago)

"boston" may win the u.s. division itt

― sweet joni from saskatooooon (get bent), Sunday, 27 March 2011 20:38 (fourteen years ago)

xp when i worked in a callcentre, i was informed (after several aborted attempts) "that's alright, luv, we just call it llan-pee-gee"

― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Sunday, 27 March 2011 20:38 (fourteen years ago)

Bawl-mer

― corey, Sunday, 27 March 2011 20:43 (fourteen years ago)

vs. Warshington

― i have a hot bagel waiting for me in my bed so ill say this: (kkvgz), Sunday, 27 March 2011 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

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― no geirs with attitude (blueski), Sunday, 27 March 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

Newtownards.

Gateacre.

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 27 March 2011 21:05 (fourteen years ago)

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

― Grotjahn in the Moma (Pillbox), Sunday, 27 March 2011 21:20 (fourteen years ago)

It is hard to say which is best, but Aberystwyth is a safe 'Honorable Mention'.

― Aimless, Sunday, 27 March 2011 21:25 (fourteen years ago)

Hertford
Hereford
Hampshire

Thank you My Fair Lady

― VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, 27 March 2011 21:27 (fourteen years ago)

There are two villages where I grew up called Little Coxwell and Great Coxwell. Obviously their modern pronunciations provide mildly amusing innuendo, but the real old locals (of whom there are very few left) pronounce them something like "Lul Caxil" and "Gurt Caxil", the latter of which I find quite fun. Gurr' Caxil. Gurrrr' Caaaaxil.

― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 27 March 2011 21:32 (fourteen years ago)

Pascagoula, Mississippi

― sarcasdick (mh), Sunday, 27 March 2011 21:41 (fourteen years ago)

Lots of Aboriginal place names around where I grew up, presents a whole lot of wtf for foreigners:

Elliminyt
Irrewillipe
Barongarook
Irrewarra
Weeaproinah may be the best for Aussie nasal twang

― VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, 27 March 2011 21:43 (fourteen years ago)

Burrrrrmingum (UK version)

― a SB-in' artist that been in the game for a minute (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 March 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)

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― RuPaul Weller (S-), Sunday, 27 March 2011 22:32 (fourteen years ago)

Don't really know exactly how a Scunny accent sounds. Graham Taylor I guess.

― a SB-in' artist that been in the game for a minute (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 March 2011 22:38 (fourteen years ago)

Finchley

― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 27 March 2011 22:42 (fourteen years ago)

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― William Bloody Swygart, Sunday, 27 March 2011 23:33 (fourteen years ago)

People from Idaho say the name of the town "St. Anthony" as "suhnatanee." Which I would sometimes repeat to myself like a mantra when driving by there.

― as you can see, they smell terrific (Abbbottt), Sunday, 27 March 2011 23:35 (fourteen years ago)

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― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Sunday, 27 March 2011 23:40 (fourteen years ago)

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― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Sunday, 27 March 2011 23:44 (fourteen years ago)

Landan taan,maaate.

Derry der nau keep'r handy, son.

― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 27 March 2011 23:45 (fourteen years ago)

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― joyless kunt who afaik contributes nothing but toothless mockery (Eisbaer), Sunday, 27 March 2011 23:55 (fourteen years ago)

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― joyless kunt who afaik contributes nothing but toothless mockery (Eisbaer), Sunday, 27 March 2011 23:56 (fourteen years ago)

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― joyless kunt who afaik contributes nothing but toothless mockery (Eisbaer), Sunday, 27 March 2011 23:57 (fourteen years ago)

"boston" may win the u.s. division itt
― sweet joni from saskatooooon (get bent), Sunday, March 27, 2011 8:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^^^ my first thought — altho "joysey" is riding high atm

― bernard snowy, Monday, 28 March 2011 00:24 (fourteen years ago)

joysey = not a town.

joysey city?

― sweet joni from saskatooooon (get bent), Monday, 28 March 2011 00:38 (fourteen years ago)

nah yr right, ppl are targeting the whole state/region with that one

"noo yawk"?

― bernard snowy, Monday, 28 March 2011 00:45 (fourteen years ago)

ex-Bostonian co-worker dropped an incidental "I saw the cah pahked in the grahge" last week and it was awesome. She left Boston 30 years ago but the accent is still right there, I love it so much

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 28 March 2011 00:45 (fourteen years ago)

vs. Warshington

It's "Warshnin," actually.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 28 March 2011 00:45 (fourteen years ago)

re "Boston" -- I prefer "Prawvidence"

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 28 March 2011 00:45 (fourteen years ago)

New Orleans is great for this..."Buhgundy"

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 28 March 2011 00:46 (fourteen years ago)

Ooh otm with the Providence...

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 28 March 2011 00:47 (fourteen years ago)

There's some crackers around Perth as well:

Karrinyup
Joondalup
Neerabup
Gidgeannup

I think "up" is some local dialect for water or midden or village some such thing.

― Borads of Candida (Trayce), Monday, 28 March 2011 00:54 (fourteen years ago)

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― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Monday, 28 March 2011 01:21 (fourteen years ago)

Shih-cay-go

― Euler, Monday, 28 March 2011 01:23 (fourteen years ago)

nor-fik

― sweet joni from saskatooooon (get bent), Monday, 28 March 2011 01:28 (fourteen years ago)

Woostersheer (bc I love the sauce) except its more fun to say woostercesstersheer

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 28 March 2011 01:29 (fourteen years ago)

Baton Rouge, LA

― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Monday, 28 March 2011 01:33 (fourteen years ago)

nor-fik

ITYM "nor-Fuck".

― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Monday, 28 March 2011 05:16 (fourteen years ago)

Washingtun!

(tyne&wear)

― Mark G, Monday, 28 March 2011 06:50 (fourteen years ago)

Woostersheer

Woostersher, not sheer.

― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Monday, 28 March 2011 09:42 (fourteen years ago)

I love this record:

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I am glad someone has put it online.

Can't listen to it at work but iirc that Leicester woman is boring.

― portrait of velleity (woof), Monday, 28 March 2011 10:05 (fourteen years ago)

^^^ my first thought — altho "joysey" is riding high atm

― bernard snowy, Sunday, March 27, 2011 8:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^nobody from jersey would pronounce it that way. Not even the areas right around NYC (which is probably the accent you're trying to get at).

― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:45 (fourteen years ago)

hence why it's a 'dodgy approximation of the local accent' :D

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 28 March 2011 17:45 (fourteen years ago)

good point!

― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:53 (fourteen years ago)

New Orleans is great for this..."Buhgundy"

― VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, March 27, 2011 7:46 PM Bookmark

I think you mean "Nawlins".

Also Lewuhvul.

― http://tinyurl.com/vroooo0ooooom (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 28 March 2011 18:36 (fourteen years ago)

lol yeah Nawlins...I picked 'buhgundy' becuase that was the one street name Mr Veg and I *loved* saying when we were staying there.

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 28 March 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

I don't think anyone actually says it like "nawlins" though! It always seemed like it ran together to me, but there is a glut of vowels that I heard.

More like "nuo'lahns"

― sarcasdick (mh), Monday, 28 March 2011 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

maybe more like nwahlins

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 28 March 2011 19:20 (fourteen years ago)

but again, we are talking about dodgy approximations, so its all good

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 28 March 2011 19:21 (fourteen years ago)

Hailing from Boston, the one that immediately came to mind was Wista, or as some people know it, Worcester.

― Moodles, Monday, 28 March 2011 19:39 (fourteen years ago)

I say nwahrlins -- there's a little bit of that R in there. But I'm not a Yat, so

― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Monday, 28 March 2011 19:45 (fourteen years ago)

lolol @ Wista

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 28 March 2011 20:23 (fourteen years ago)

wahwick (RI)

― sarahel, Monday, 28 March 2011 20:25 (fourteen years ago)

When I was in Lancaster, UK, my American "LAN-cast-er" was taking a lot of heat. Locals told me to pronounce it "Lung Cancer".

― Can you keep up? (Cheetah), Monday, 28 March 2011 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

Tijuana

― kkvgz, Monday, 28 March 2011 21:10 (fourteen years ago)

uhddersfield

― ogmor, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 22:43 (fourteen years ago)

someone told me he was from Moosejaw. I believed him.

― Snop Snitchin, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 02:07 (fourteen years ago)

Kankakee, IL (as in 'the train pulls out of Kankakee' from 'City of New Orleans' song) - locals pronounce as 'Kankkee' - two syllables ....

― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 02:27 (fourteen years ago)

Tronno.

― Borads of Candida (Trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 02:38 (fourteen years ago)

hahaha irl lols at that

― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 02:57 (fourteen years ago)

Deffert (Deptford)

― harrumph. (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:05 (fourteen years ago)

I just remembered Iowa towns!

Nevada
(nuh-VAY-duh)
Madrid
(mad-drid)

― sarcasdick (mh), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:06 (fourteen years ago)

Cuyahoga Falls, OH -- Caugafalls or just "the falls" if you're really a local

― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:26 (fourteen years ago)

well, more like /cawga/ if we're being precise

― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:27 (fourteen years ago)

See I'dve said that as "coyoga", not knowing.

― Borads of Candida (Trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:50 (fourteen years ago)

Worcester, pronounced "Wahstah."

Also, "Nashwah, New Hampshah" (Nashua, New Hampshire)

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 05:18 (fourteen years ago)

Broadmeadows: BRAWDIE

― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 05:40 (fourteen years ago)

Sunshine: SUNSHAWN

― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 05:41 (fourteen years ago)

Warrnambool: THE BOOL

― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 05:41 (fourteen years ago)

Drogheda = 'Draaaaw -dah'

Waterford = 'Wahr -fur' (more than two syllables, not quite three)

― I'm Street but I Know my Roots (sonofstan), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 06:39 (fourteen years ago)

way up thread, a day late and a dollar short:

the only people who pronounce Jersey as "Joisey" are non-NJers. thank you.

― joyless kunt who afaik contributes nothing but toothless mockery (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 07:30 (fourteen years ago)

Yes, hence dodgy approximation.

For UK-ers, the correct answer is surely Birmingham.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 07:44 (fourteen years ago)

Its always intrigued me how Americans refer to the city as "Tore-on-toe", all nicely enunciated, while to those of us from around here (and within a coupla hundred miles) it's always "Teronna"

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 08:19 (fourteen years ago)

Manchestoh
Liverpewel
Glasgee

― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 09:19 (fourteen years ago)

Dodloi
Narrch

― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 09:21 (fourteen years ago)

BAH HABAH FO' SUM LOBSTAHS. Affer dat let's go to Marden's, it will be mint.

― Simpsons Christmas Boogie (MintIce), Thursday, 31 March 2011 00:43 (fourteen years ago)

hee hee

― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 31 March 2011 01:11 (fourteen years ago)

Glasgee

Are people deaf or what? It's GLEZGA

― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 March 2011 09:41 (fourteen years ago)

uhddersfield

not forgetting 'ull

― quantum telescope (+ +), Thursday, 31 March 2011 10:56 (fourteen years ago)

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