A British Tries to Pronounce US Towns!!

[@henri191]

Christina 🇺🇲 has a great talent to fit with anyone from UK , first was Lauren , then Hanna and now Cady 🇬🇧

[@KC-qi7gn]

IKR I agree Christina N Cali r my favorite USA Native hosts They both can match with anyone from the UK 🇬🇧 like Lauren the women from today r good UK 🇬🇧 Natives too (N the guy's who r both USA 🇺🇸 N UK 🇬🇧 Native to r awsome

[@nevermind3520]

Also with the two Andreas from Spain and Mexico

[@arze8147]

There's Emily from uk too before Lauren 💚

[@Charles_200]

Loved Cady's accent and also her name , looks like candy 🍬

[@PierreMiniggio]

She should move to CHOCCOLOCO :D

[@lleeexx]

too bad lip injections were botched.. remember stay natural people

[@NoSlaying]

she has a plastic scouse accent

[@cadyheim]

This was so hard! But so fun to hear how different they were pronounced. - Cady 🇬🇧

[@cadyheim]

@달여우 thank you so much!

[@VivekBro69]

I really like your lovely accent and fluency.

[@cadyheim]

@@VivekBro69 thank you! :)

[@SinilkMudilaSama]

Cady you observe and study yankee accent very well. 🍻🍹🍸🥂🍨🍨🍨🍨

[@TheAstrologyZodiacball]

Nice job

[@juangonzales1412]

For me the one of the reasons why is hard to guess how to pronounce words in English is because it takes words from other languages and it keeps the same spelling and pronunciation, words don't anglicized too much. In Spanish for example we took the word chauffeur from French but we transformed it into chofer, or foot ball from English and we turned it into futbol. That's why some cities are hard to guess how to pronounce because they were founded by people who spoke German, Spanish French or are Native American languages

[@henri191]

Welcome to world friends , Cady from United Kindom 🇬🇧

[@ChristinaDonnelly]

I had a fun time with Cady pronouncing these US town names. I actually haven't heard of any of these small towns 😆😆 -Christina 🇺🇸

[@henri191]

@Lucifer In Hell you are always good with people from UK , Lauren , Hannah and now with Cady 😁🇬🇧

[@larsradtke4097]

Just in case Lafayette is a place in France, Paris. The US mispronunciation hurts me physically 🤕

[@garyfontenot2786]

The U.S. has so many cities/towns with names based on many different cultures, so it's hard to pronounce many correctly. I live just west of Lafayette, LA, and I've heard it pronounced three different ways. Yes, I would've been one of those to pronounce it Worchester without knowing.

[@VL1975]

Where's that New England accent!? lol

[@hollypfingston8173]

Where do you live? I thought I heard you say that you no longer live in the US, but you also said that you haven't been to the UK.

[@ADPeguero]

As a native Spanish speaker who learned English in the US, I realized just how “Special” English can be when I discovered how New Yorkers pronounce Houston Street.

[@KarmaKraftttt]

The east coast North American accents are the least closest accents to British English. I mean it was those areas which were colonised. And love New York man it's amazing there!🌆

[@anndeecosita3586]

It’s common in the USA for a word to have different pronunciations in different places. Plus Houston the city in Texas is named after a man named Sam Houston. Houston Street in NYC likely got it’s name from somewhere else. It’s also not uncommon for a last name to pronounced or spelled differently now than it was in previous generations. One of my family names is Taliaferro. But that side changed the spelling to Toliver because that’s how we pronounced it but there are Americans with this name who say Toliver and others who say Tah lee ah fer ro.

[@KarmaKraftttt]

@@anndeecosita3586 Are you Mexican?

[@ryanjustice2670]

I actually got a big surprise a few years back when I was trying to get some info about a property in a small North Georgia town. It was on street spelled Houston and the people there pronounced it the same as the street in New York.

[@haileyvance3474]

Crazy to me that they chose Lafayette. There are much harder town names in Louisiana. There's a town called Natchitoches, which sounds nothing like it's spelled. Nack-it-dish.

[@garyfontenot2786]

Living just west of Lafayette, LA, I've heard different pronunciations. Locals and nearby call it La-Fee-Yet. I've heard out of the area call it La-Fie-yet, and La-Fay-ett. Many other states have cities called Lafayette, but I'm not sure how their locals pronounce it.

[@kealisimons8558]

Lafayette, Indiana is pronounced La-fee-et. I feel like some of these are misrepresented because the pronunciation is different for separate locales.

[@kitewilson9200]

I cringed so much! I'm also from Louisiana and I call it La-Fee-yet!!

[@jeffreybroussely9795]

As Christina said, many places have different pronunciations depending on your state. Definitely true for Lafayette, at least 3 different ones that I'm aware of, and they're all correct.

[@dancourtney2633]

In Detroit, Michigan, Lafayette is a street with a famous, coney island restaurant, called Lafayette Coney, and they pronounce it "lah-fye-ette," like one of them suggested for a moment.

[@Serenity_Dee]

Those "weird" place names in Alabama trace back to the Indigenous people and languages of the region. Especially in the Southeast, those place names are the only traces left of many, many cultures and peoples annihilated by successive waves of Spanish and English settlers.

[@surfboarding5058]

So how come the place names were kept

[@bsh28209]

This is absolutely true: I’m Bruce 🇺🇸 grew up in Alabama. Four tribes of Native Americans settled there before the Europeans: words with Coosa (Coosa-da) and poosa (Tallapoosa) are Native Am words. Also words with Choc or Chocco connect with the Choctaw tribe. Creek, Cherokee and Chickasaw tribes also added their place names. The Brits are such good sports about these words, and I love her Birkenhead accent!!

[@anndeecosita3586]

A lot of USA town names are NOT ENGLISH words so applying English logic to it does you no good. People forget there were people here prior to the arrival of Europeans. My family is from Alabama and a lot town have Native American names. our town name in Choctaw. And Lafayatte pronunciation differs depending on which town in the country because there is more than one.

[@zacheryvorse8130]

Ours is chataqua.(shutawckwa) Great lakes region and yes your right

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@zacheryvorse8130 Even her home state of Massachusetts is named for after a Native American tribe so I would have thought Christina would be aware it is common for our country’s states, town, rivers, and islands and whatever to not be not English words. The English language isn’t native to this land. Not mention many places have heavily French and/or Spanish names because most of the current day USA wasn’t part of the British colonies. Mobile was the first capital of Colonial Louisiana and and a lot of the coastal areas have French names. Actually IMO calling it “weird” is what’s weird.

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

lol. most places in the US are from the UK.

[@MrJovon321]

I don't think it's so wrong to use English logic when pronouncing some words because English phonology was in mind when some of the transliterations were made from indigenous languages. The problem really comes in when you consider the various local accents and easy corruptions of foreign words, plus the fact that some of the indigenous names were inherited through French or Spanish, making the spelling + pronunciation even less intuitive in English (such as Arkansas or Chicago, "Arkansah" because of French & Ch = Sh because of French).

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@dcmastermindfirst9418 San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Chula Vista, La Jolla, El Paso, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Miami, and loads more. And I’m sure these are all the named after places in the UK. Then look at states. Alabama, California, Nevada, Massachusetts, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Kansas, Missouri and so many more are not from English. Also having a European name isn’t the same as having an English name. Not every place in the US is New England.

[@aldir252]

love the way cady speak, she seems like very soft and kind woman, and a kind of woman that you wanna befriend with

[@cadyheim]

Thank you!

[@BiglerSakura]

"Ch" is pronounced as "sh" in Chicago and Michigan. Probably, originally it was French transcription of Indian names.

[@EarlLeeByrd]

That was fun! Would be interesting to see a collection of names taken from different regions of the US. People tend to think of American History starting from Europe but once you get away from the East Coast a lot of the names come from the Native American's living there already and as such are really weird for English speakers (and very different depending on the region). An easy example is Seattle, named for Chief Si'ahl. Which helps explain why it is pronounced see-AT-el instead of seat-tle (or like "feather", "creature", "creative" "heat", or any other English word containing the letter combination 'eat'). Now obviously enough people are familiar with Seattle that most won't mispronounce it, but something like Sequim (pronounced Skwim) would probably trip most non-locals up ;-) (As a local, I thought the location on the map and what I heard verbally were two different places for years lol)

[@raeprince1906]

Personally some of my favorites in Oklahoma are oologah, Tishomingo, Chouteau, hartshorne, weleetka, bokchito, wapanuka, talala, Miami, and ixl

[@jennyhill7190]

Yeah fellow Oklahoman here, Miami is pronounced Mi-am-uh instead of Mi-am-ie which confuses me 😂.

[@jennyhill7190]

Oh also Eufaula which is pronounced U-fall-Uh 😂

[@itscoral]

I think Choccolocco was named after a native American word. Same with Loachapoka

[@rendhikaakbar6933]

I am simple man, i see christina i click the video

[@dustinsutton6166]

There is a town in Utah called Tooele (too-e-la, or sometimes too-i-la)

[@Newspeak.]

Choccolocco is based off of a creek Native American word and loachapoka is a Muskogee word.

[@zc6036]

More Cady plz

[@deanmcmanis9398]

Many town names are people's names or words. Because America is such a mixing bowl of cultures you can see names from all over the world and different languages. The trick is that many names get Americanized over time, so you can have a French, Spanish, or native American Indian name that is not pronounced correctly, but it has been said wrong over time, so now the changed name or pronunciation is the correct one for the region.

[@Atlantiquasa]

Okay lol Lafayette is a tricky one...and i know being from there. In Louisiana we pronounced it and is known across the state as 'laf · ee · yet' to where when spoken it just rolls off the tongue. In other states they pronounce it as you have here or without so much emphasis on the 'fay' as it's often heard as 'faī' as how the word 'guy' is pronounced. French named cities being thrown across the country often end up experiencing this lol.

[@AT-rr2xw]

Oh, wow. I live in Worcester right near the border with Shrewsbury.

[@BiglerSakura]

A good example of a small town shown in an American movie would be Punxsutawney in "Groundhog Day". (Though filmed in other towns.)

[@HungTran-39]

🇻🇳❤️🇺🇸🇪🇺🇬🇧

[@jamesw288]

In Colorado we have a town named Lafayette but we pronunciation different than the one in Louisiana

[@smokeandquills]

Would love to see you folks try this with our Aussie town/city/suburb names as we have some crazy ones and also lots that trick tourists and locals alike, even native English speakers no matter where you're from (out of state, overseas or even Aussies from an hour away coz only the true locals know the proper way to pronounce it!) due to the fact that a large percentage of our place names are of indigenous origin! There are some pretty awesome ones that will give you some funny tongue-twisting surprises! For instance, within an hour or two of me (I'm in the state of Victoria, Australia) we have places like Whorouly, Deniliquin, Bobinawarrah, Wangaratta, Tallangatta, Tangambalanga, Moyhu, Wunghnu, Waaia, Myrrhee, Baranduda, Yackandandah, Tocumwal, Tatura, Porepunkah, Dhurringile, Milawa, Boweya, Wagga Wagga, Ettamogah, Tungamah, Woomargama, Wandiligong, Numurkah and Burrumbuttock! And of course, not close to me but we also have the famously tricky Woolloomooloo, Oodnadatta, Mudgeeraba, Liawenee, Gingin, Xantippe and Goondiwindi. Have fun with those ones, lol! Totally simplez and totes normal sounding to us locals from around North East Victoria, Australia but to outsiders, a bit ridiculous and it's always cute to hear the different ways people pronounce them when seeing them for the first time! Have a go at some of our weird Aussie town and suburb names as there's plenty more wild and wacky ones from other areas too just like this!

[@musicalneptunian]

Walpeup! Only know it because there used to be a CSIRO research field site there for testing wood stakes against termite attack.

[@serenamartini1063]

Driving around in Australia, we found the town of Yankalilla... so funny name!

[@gordonwallin2368]

Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

[@Stayville_Clown]

Choccolocco reminds me of two things. First, I see the locco as loco and I associate it with like someone who’s a little crazy about chocolate you know? Second, My math teacher in elementary school always said boom chaca laca and the pronunciation reminded me of that. (It if something like a sign of joy or excitement)

[@EllieTheHufflepuff]

Oh Christina!! I live in a town in Massachusetts named newton and a lot of my friends live in Shrewsbury

[@frigginjerk]

I think I stayed in Newton a few years ago, when I visited Boston for a weekend. Took the train into the city.

[@ChristinaDonnelly]

Wow I was born in Newton! Small world :D

[@tinadonaldson-goldman9533]

So, I live in Louisiana and I don't know anyone here who pronounces Lafayette - La-FAY-ette - with a hard prounciation of the Fay. They pronounce it La-fey-ette or La-fee-ette.

[@thoughtoftheday9095]

We have a lot of towns named after Native American words here in Alabama.

[@gmf121266]

Im from the Uk. My favourite US place name is Poughkeepsie pronnounced PuKipsee.

[@FionaEm]

In Australia we have a lot of hard-to-pronounce places, like Wollongong, Warrnambool, Patchewollock, Indooroopilly, Capalaba, Wooloongabba, Coonabarabran etc. Many are English bastardisations of Indigenous names.

[@jamesonmiller8283]

I like Eldorado, TX where folks who know Spanish (or at least heard about the mythical city of gold) would say el-da-RAH-doh, but locals say el-da-RAY-doh. Although I dated someone who wanted to be from Waxahachie, because she liked the way it sounded (with her drawl).

[@래오-j2h]

크리스티나, 오늘도 재미있게 시청했네요. 감사합니다

[@shaleahdewitt1582]

Layfeyette is actually the most common city name is the Us. I pronounce it La-FEE-ett.

[@davidkandr8251]

What I’d found crazy is there’s so many towns and cities in US named after world capitals, like: Moscow in Ohio, Rome in Georgia, Prague in Oklahoma, Paris in Texas.. it’s funny😁

[@Noelia-um6yz]

The second word is one I have read a book about

[@Devila103]

Lafayette is pronounced “LAFFY-et” in Louisiana.

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

that's because it's French.

[@Devila103]

@@dcmastermindfirst9418 Actually, Louisiana doesn’t pronounce it in the French way. We don’t say “New OrLEANS”, either. It’s “NORlins”. “OrLEANS” is reserved for the street or the parish. ⚜️

[@juanfran579]

Being French it should be pronounced La- Fa-Yet.

[@MichaelTargaryen809]

i know even the same name can be pronounced differently in different states Haverhill is pronounced Hav-er-hill in the south but there i come from in Massachusetts its pronounced Haev-rill

[@oisantosart]

I like the prologue. "Helloooo!" ☺️. Love it

[@RoccosVideos]

Christina I didn’t realize you’re from the Worcester area. Me too. I live in southern Worcester county. No one knows how to pronounce Worcester who isn’t from the area.

[@maxwellcorbin4764]

The reason for these names is that there are many towns in Alabama (and other states in the south-east) with Native American names, so it is pronounced quite differently than English.

[@jlpack62]

There are a lot of US place names that have Native American Origins.

[@sylwiawajda9866]

In Poland we don't have any problem with pronunciation of names of the cities or villages, even if you've never heard of them before. This is because you always pronounce the same letters the same way. You can easily read the words you haven't heard before.

[@SarahElisabethJoyal]

But I think there are many Polish sounds which are hard to learn how to make if you're not a native speaker 😂

[@sylwiawajda9866]

@@SarahElisabethJoyal maybe. However, once you've learnt how to make certain sounds, you'd be able to read anything in Polish. It's only important not to miss any letter. There are no silent letters in Polish🙂 If it comes to names of villages in Poland, we have some funny names to: Piekło (which means "hell"), Niebo (heaven), Całowanie (kissing), Zgon (death), Żabojady (frog eaters), Zimna wódka (cold vodka), Długie Stare (Long Old... no idea what🤷‍♀️)... and mamy, many more😅😅

[@JohnMacbeth]

@@sylwiawajda9866 I'm English so "Żabojady" will be useful when I come into contact with the French 👌

[@smeghead6123]

Hello From Worcester Worcestershire England.

[@gregmuon]

A lot of US towns (and states) have Native American names. No doubt that throws UK people for a loop. Many have Spanish and French names too...

[@fluffymajestic4589]

Lafayette might be pronounced that way in Louisiana, but in Georgia (Savannah), it most certainly would be Lah-fi-YET (long “I” sound).

[@prinsitiwari6071]

"Hellooo"!

[@mackenzied4443]

where do you guys film? genuinely curious bc cady has said she's never been to the US and christina says she's never been to the UK

[@JosephOccenoBFH]

South Korea

[@dancingintherains]

Cady

[@martinegelinas459]

Um I'm pretty sure Lafayette is not right because my first language is French and we would say it "la-fah-yèt" ( not very good at transcribing phonetics but think of a french ah) . Also in true blood Lafayette was not lah fay yet.

[@anndeecosita3586]

There are multiple cities in the USA named Lafayette (and some counties) and they are not all pronounced the same way. And then I’ve been to cities like Gautier where half of the residents pronounce it one way and the other half another. And the people who lived in the French colony here spoke Louisiana Creole or Cajun French. Not the same the French you speak.

[@martinegelinas459]

@@anndeecosita3586 I did not know, thank you!

[@dreathompson8623]

Cool video. There is a town in NJ called Forked River. But the Forked is pronounced with 2 syllables... So Forkid River. You wouldn't know unless you grew up there.

[@hueypautonoman]

Nanafalia sounds like a disease. "I'm afraid he has nanafalia of the liver. We'll need to operate."

[@scottandrewhutchins]

I'm from Indianapolis. Lafayette, Indiana is pronounced "Lafeeyette" by a lot of people.

[@lucalai8436]

If you think that a town of 3 thousands people is small, I live in a town with 1600 habitants or maybe less, lol

[@dalemoore8582]

There are a lot of Native American names in Alabama

[@V0r4xiz]

Is it me or is Christina getting prettier with every video?

[@berinloritsch]

These are almost all American Indian place names. There's a few fun places that are easier to pronounce like Intercourse, PA. And if you want a chocolate themed theme park you can go to Hershey, PA.

[@reaccion3328]

Exactly I live in Allentown and all weekends go to Hershey park with my family .....it so cute

[@alexfine6647]

We know of Hershey because of Christian Pulisic

[@reaccion3328]

@@alexfine6647 oh yeah he was born here..Pennsylvania

[@alexfine6647]

@@reaccion3328 yes here in London we know of Hershey,PA because of Christian, there was a football competition two years ago and that was one of the questions haha

[@d0yiz]

Hi there. We like you very much. Good luck with your show on this topic.Christina good luck to you.

[@RecklawTheAmazing]

Lol all these were from my home state so I got a fair few

[@aquiestamos3567]

muito bom !!!

[@pro369]

You both did so well. Thanks for the nice idea, perfect match, well done

[@JosephOccenoBFH]

Miami, FL Miami, OK Missouri Missour(ah) Arkansas Arkansas River El Dorado, CA El Dorado, KS Nevada (state) Nevada, MO

[@aehighfmcolinchin]

We have 6 UK People now

[@oussgaming98]

.. about lafayette : Marie Joseph Gilbert Motier, known as the Marquis de La Fayette, born on September 6, 1757 in Chavaniac in Auvergne and died on May 20, 1834 in Paris, stands out as a great French military figure whose destiny is undoubtedly linked to that of America

[@theskull8637]

I'm from western Massachusetts

[@martynadams2011]

I like Schenectady NY especially as the Zip Code is 12345 🤯

[@MikkoRantalainen]

English should be considered two separate languages. There's written English and theres spoken English which very loosely follows the logic of written English but you cannot assume that two words are pronounced even closely the same if you differ only by letter or two. That's why US has spelling bee contents: they are in fact testing how many children have learned written English in addition to spoken English they use in everyday life. For me, it's the other way around. I can easily write English but spoken English is very hard for me because I live in Finland and I don't need to speak English. I have pretty good idea how English should sound but my brain is missing the quick pathways to pronounce English so I have to use a lot of brainpower to remember how a given word should be pronounced when I know how it's written.

[@RoccosVideos]

The pronounced Lafayette more the French way than the American way.

[@swapnachakraborty9502]

I am a big fan of American and British English.Both are amazing and posh.

[@Voodooblue89]

Should have done Louisville. Big city everyone has heard of, but few who aren’t from there say correctly.

[@FranBushardt]

CHEEKTOWAGA New York and take the SCAJAQUADA Expressway from Buffalo!

[@Peter-gv6vf]

In England i genuinely believed the state was pronounced R-Kanzas. Until i found out it is actually R-ken-saw (Arkansas).

[@JohannaJahn]

A fun video idea would be other non Irish people trying to pronounce Irish name like Siobhan or Caoimhe!! xx

[@davidkasquare]

That’s a good idea. I think I actually saw some video with this. No guess had nothing whatsoever to do with the real pronunciation.

[@ameliaxxqueen5543]

I'm from Boston in the UK and there is a boston I'm america

[@reykaye6096]

(Not saying this to be mean) but the way Christina says “archiTEXture” is so cute 😅

[@AibolRamazanov]

Is it just me, or Christina got this vibe, right? She is a ting!

[@davidalvarez6262]

Should have people try and say Alaska village names.

[@lonelylionsingle7582]

- Sweet Home Alabama

[@Lexor888]

- "Chakkalucka..." Official rolls Scrabble dice - "No, it's spelled Choccolocco dummy" This is literally how I picture british and americans making up the spelling of town names

[@patri5337]

❤️❤️❤️

[@litigioussociety4249]

This video should have just been about Native American inspired names. All the others have various pronunciations depending on the state, road, or other thing names that. For example, Lafayette is pronounced with the AI sound in many places.

[@helenn8515]

This video, more than "A British tries to pronounce US towns" it should have been called "An American and a British try to pronounce US towns"

[@SnowmanTF2]

While I am half the country away from Louisiana, that is not any of the common pronunciations I have heard for Lafayatte.

[@Hugh_de_Mortimer]

Birkenhead is across the river from Liverpool There's nothing in the way she speaks that sounds remotely Welsh, sounds like Scouser-lite.

[@TheBigC182]

Wow, I'm from the Shrewsbury in England. Nice to hear we made it across to the US too haha. I wonder if they have a debate on the pronunciation over there too.

[@DJDufus]

Just came here to say the same thing. Glad she pronounced it “Shoes-bury”

[@alexfine6647]

well played to Shrewsbury Fc vs Rotherham class team

[@mytbread108]

What about Boise? No one from outside Idaho gets it right.

[@ex3boy91]

Chica loca going from Choccolocco to Loachapoka

[@BlueYup]

I'd love to hear either of them pronounce the name of Wewahitchka, Florida. Either that or Choctawhatchee. Choctawhatchee isn't a town; it's a river that drains into a bay of the same name that my hometown borders, and literally everyone who doesn't live around here pronounces it wrong, so it feels fittting.

[@kenshinjenna]

Lafayette has 3 different pronunciations in the United States depending on which one you are referring to.

[@Shalovesgod]

In Louisiana it was none of those they said

[@sushanlamgade]

@@Shalovesgod is it not supposed to be pronounced as La-Fee-Yet?

[@BiglerSakura]

In Ohio they've hacked the "Worcester" problem. Their town name spelling is Wooster.

[@greenguy369]

I'm also from New England... you could honestly just start rattling off English towns and there's like a 75% there is one in New England.

[@JosephOccenoBFH]

Damn I love Christina's 'Alabama' accent 😍 Ooo-wee !! 😃

[@girlde3319]

christina：gu in she's cute

[@JohnRayRice13]

Ooh, have fun trying to pronounce Thonotosassa…

[@JohnRayRice13]

For those trying to figure out where that is, it’s 12 miles outside of Tampa

[@BostonBobby1961]

I am also from Massachusetts. Live in the Boston area in a suburb called Medford pronounced Medfid by us locals. Try Billerica, Peabody, Dracut, Methuen.

[@mrt.6345]

Christina is really glowing these days. I don't know why bu can't help but notice it😊

[@joshuddin897]

Pregnancy??