How do i pronounce Arkansas

[B_Nick8]

And I suppose 24 hours from Tulsa could be anywhere on the planet?

Honey, 24 hours from Tulsa would be a relief.

Or some might say,

Worcester = Wistah
Gloucester = Glawstah
Haverhill = Hayvrull
Peobody = Pbd (haha, yes or phonetically, Peebadee)
Billerica = Billricka (or if you live there its more like Brrika).
Quincy = Quinzy
Leominster = Lemstah
Medford = Meffah
Methuen = Mettooin
Chatham = Chattum
Concord = Congkid (light on the g, but it is there).
Somerville = Sumvull
Nahant = Nahahnt
Tewksbury = Tooksbry
Chelmsford = Chemsfid
Lowell = Lowl

You're clearly a local boy, too. :biggrin1:

 

[invisibleman]

Is it as spelt, AR-KAN-SAS or is it AR-KAN-SAW?

I've always referred to it as the latter and never been corrected but i was talking to a colleague today and she said the first one, i did'nt question it cos i knew what she meant.

Arkansas is pronounced AR-KAN-SAW. It is kinda like Worchestershire in Worchestershire sauce is pronounced "Wurs-chur-sure" and not WOR-CHESTER-SHY-YER. And Leicester is pronounced "Lester" and not LEE-SESTER.

No problem. I used to mispronounced the ADIRONDACK in adirondack chairs as ADD-IRON-DACK. The furniture sales guy just . But he just pronounced it correctly for me as "Oh, ADD-DUR-RON-DACK."

English...what a funny language.

 

[Bbucko]

Or some might say,

Worcester = Wistah
Gloucester = Glawstah
Haverhill = Hayvrull
Peobody = Pbd (haha, yes or phonetically, Peebadee)
Billerica = Billricka (or if you live there its more like Brrika).
Quincy = Quinzy
Leominster = Lemstah
Medford = Meffah
Methuen = Mettooin
Chatham = Chattum
Concord = Congkid (light on the g, but it is there).
Somerville = Sumvull
Nahant = Nahahnt
Tewksbury = Tooksbry
Chelmsford = Chemsfid
Lowell = Lowl

Then there's Hingham (Hing-um, but the "g" is not pronounced as in Cong-kid, it's completely swallowed) and Eastham, which is perversely pronounced Eest-ham, 'cuz anything else would be wicked fuckt.

 

[D_Tintagel_Demondong]

Honey, 24 hours from Tulsa would be a relief.



You're clearly a local boy, too. :biggrin1:

How do you annunciate Louisville?

1. Loo-is-ville
2. Loo-ee-ville
3. Loo-a-ville
4. Lu-vil
5. loo-al

My IPA training is wasted here. I'm lost without my schwa.

I remember recently talking to you about how one pronounces "gunwale" and "cockswain"... in one of those creepy nerd bonding moments. I wonder if non-sailors can guess.

 

[HellsKitchenmanNYC]

Honey, 24 hours from Tulsa would be a relief.



You're clearly a local boy, too. :biggrin1:

Ahhhh who doesn't love a Dusty Springfield reference?!

 

[B_dxjnorto]

Nawlins.

 

[Calboner]

Or some might say,

Worcester = Wistah
Gloucester = Glawstah
Haverhill = Hayvrull
Peobody = Pbd (haha, yes or phonetically, Peebadee)
Billerica = Billricka (or if you live there its more like Brrika).
Quincy = Quinzy
Leominster = Lemstah
Medford = Meffah
Methuen = Mettooin
Chatham = Chattum
Concord = Congkid (light on the g, but it is there).
Somerville = Sumvull
Nahant = Nahahnt
Tewksbury = Tooksbry
Chelmsford = Chemsfid
Lowell = Lowl

This is instructive, but I would add a warning lest people unacquainted with Bostonian speech be misled by the inclusion of both local standard pronunciations and local peculiarities of accent. A notable instance is the place-name "Concord." To pronounce this like the English word "concord" (that is, "con-cord") is quite simply wrong: the correct pronunciation is homophonous with "conquered." Now in the speech of some locals, there may be no audible "r" in the second syllable; but that is a matter of accent, not of pronunciation (in the sense of the lexical distribution of phonemes). To take another instance, it is wrong to pronounce "Leominster" as if it began with "Leo"; the standard pronunciation is "lemminster"; but locals have the privilege of reducing that to "lemsta."

 

[mitchymo]

Boy did i open a box!

Talk about assistants :tongue:

 

[B_dxjnorto]

nawfuk.

 

[DaveyR]

nawfuk.

Funny you should post that but when we moved to Norfolk we received a letter from a family member spelling Norfolk Norfuck. :biggrin1:

 

[B_dxjnorto]

Is anybody posting on any other thread?

 

[B_Nick8]

How do you annunciate Louisville?

1. Loo-is-ville
2. Loo-ee-ville
3. Loo-a-ville
4. Lu-vil
5. loo-al

My IPA training is wasted here. I'm lost without my schwa.

I remember recently talking to you about how one pronounces "gunwale" and "cockswain"... in one of those creepy nerd bonding moments. I wonder if non-sailors can guess.

And I told you it was gun-ull. Anyway, you are so in the dog house; I'm not even speaking to you at all lately and you know why.

This is instructive, but I would add a warning lest people unacquainted with Bostonian speech be misled by the inclusion of both local standard pronunciations and local peculiarities of accent. A notable instance is the place-name "Concord." To pronounce this like the English word "concord" (that is, "con-cord") is quite simply wrong: the correct pronunciation is homophonous with "conquered." Now in the speech of some locals, there may be no audible "r" in the second syllable; but that is a matter of accent, not of pronunciation (in the sense of the lexical distribution of phonemes). To take another instance, it is wrong to pronounce "Leominster" as if it began with "Leo"; the standard pronunciation is "lemminster"; but locals have the privilege of reducing that to "lemsta."

I usually hear it more like Concud and Leminsta. But for the record, apart from pronouncing local names, I have no Boston accent.

 

[2322]

How do you annunciate Louisville?

1. Looeyville
2. Looaville
3. Luvil

My IPA training is wasted here. I'm lost without my schwa.

I remember recently talking to you about how one pronounces "gunwale" and "cockswain"... in one of those creepy nerd bonding moments. I wonder if non-sailors can guess.

Natives say, "Luvill" but surrounding can say, "looavil" and get away with it.

"Gunwale" is "gunil" and "cockswain" is "coxun" like "boatswain" is "bosun"

"New Orleans," is like that. "Nawlins" is how they say it down their way. Oddly enough, "Baton Rouge" is still pronounced correctly, if without a France-French accent.

Pennsylvania is terribly frustrated. I've neglected to point out that Blue Ball is just 16 miles from Intercourse. It seems that no matter how hard Blue Ball tries, it'll never get any closer to Intercourse. The reason is because Virginville gets in the way and Intercourse is surrounded by the unfortnately-named Leacock. Both are near, but just slightly too far away from Climax. The prudes among us will be happy to know that Blue Ball and Intercourse are a suitable distance from Loleta, Bulger, and Hosensuck.

I cannot get my head around the town named Clyde No. 3. There are no Clydes 1 or 2, just Clyde No. 3. There's also Foot In Ten and Scalp Level.

Pennsylvania is seriously whacked.

 

[B_Nick8]

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I cannot get my head around the town named Clyde No. 3. There are no Clydes 1 or 2, just Clyde No. 3.

Any or all of them are fine as long as they're not ClydeS. :biggrin1:

 

[kalipygian]

Few Floridians know that the Suwanee River was once the San Juan. Spanish to Muskoegan to English. A tributary, the Santa Fe, was in the 19thc pronounced and spelled Santaffy, it has gone back to a regular Spanish pronunciation.

 

[D_Ivana Dickenside]

maybe the people down in arkansas made the "s" silent so they can seem more culturally renowned? :lmao:

 

[D_Portelay Porquesword]

Go Razorbacks!

 

[Stretch]

It's "Leicester," not "Leichester."

oops...of course it is Cal. Not sure how I slipped an h in there. I would blame it on key proximity slip but that would be a hell of a slip from the c or the e. :smile:

 

[Viking_UK]

There are a few confusing ones in Scotland too.
Have a guess at Avoch, Milngavie, Dalziel, Garioch, Finzean, Culzean, Kirkcudbright and Anstruther.

(Och, Mul-guy, Dee-ell, Geery, Fingin, Kullain, Cur-coo-brie and Ainster)

Good luck

 

[HazelGod]

It's pronounced SHIT-hole: accent on the first syllable.

:lmao:

Actually, the state itself is gorgeous...it's just full of the sorts of people who make it seem like a shithole.