Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas"en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down18
arrow-up1146arrow-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@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square62fedilink
minus-squareninjabard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months 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-squareripcord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoAh yes. “Hoo-ston” and “How-ston” are definitely both things. “De-kab” and “De-kalb” Haven’t run into the Bowie one.
minus-squareninjabard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 months 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-squareflicker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months 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-squareninjabard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months 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.