We tried (again) to Pronounce these Florida Town Names

In the South, never judge a town name by the way it's spelled. These town names in Florida are no exception.

[@adiburgos4454]

Contrary to popular belief Florida has 4 seasons Football season Hurricane season Love bug season Tourist season

[@larrykinnard]

You're forgetting Summer, and Not Summer

[@flamingpieherman9822]

And I always say we have really hot, hot and then finally not so hot!

[@machellemccallie937]

Love bug season is baaaddd!

[@kenoboyd9929]

I hate love bugs, it kills me so much

[@krispykrunch5154]

Football and hurricane really turn up at basically the same time though...

[@jemsmom6922]

As a Floridian, I died a little inside. But y’all tried. 👍

[@lucydeep2156]

I was born in Orlando and I haven't even heard of half these places. XD

[@jemsmom6922]

Lucy Deep I was born and raised in Orlando as well! We do have some weird town names, like any other state.

[@kaitlyne1870]

I know! It's so funny when people struggle with these words because I grew up saying them. I just take them for granted at this point.

[@heidimarchant5438]

@@lucydeep2156 were floating the same boat, I've only heard of one!

[@nfgatorgal]

Lol yes! My church is on Eau Gallie Blvd 😂

[@SanskarWagley]

Northern Florida is Southern, Southern Florida is Northern wow that's true lol

[@nfgatorgal]

Sanskar Wagley definitely true!! I have lived all over FL and can attest

[@racheldavin7763]

I've heard it said that when in Florida, the more Northern you go, the more Southern it is.

[@marienygard1173]

Yup!! Live in NW FL and I gotta say, it’s like we live in L.A. - Lower Alabama!!

[@watermelvin8352]

This is so fucking true

[@adiburgos4454]

Sanskar Wagley except for weather

[@naomianna20]

I’m from Loxahatchee Fl...... learning how to spell that as a kid was my biggest failing.....gotta love Florida ❤️

[@kaitlyne1870]

The spelling is honestly harder than the pronunciations! I'd love to see a video where someone said the word to them and they had to figure out how to spell it! 😂

[@naomianna20]

Katie Rosa yesssss!!! That’s a wonderful idea for a video!!!

[@mikejustice1772]

I'm also from loxahatchee and I was truly hoping that it would be in the video

[@malk67]

@@mikejustice1772, and living and working off Okeechobee Blvd. for years helps one remember. Okeeheelee would have been a fun one to see them try. Although Mr. Morikami really threw everyone off with Yamato Road.

[@christianapinto9628]

I learned in school that Loxahatchee means Turtle Turtle in Native american 🤣

[@austingrathwol2961]

I’m from Florida and it’s mainly all Indian people Spanish names

[@cupcakeloverlol7208]

Yep

[@NoThankUBeQuiet]

This.

[@oscarolivera1337]

I know I live in Florida true and that's SO TRUE there's this one apartment complex that is pretty much only Indians near where I live

[@flamingpieherman9822]

... Spanish Indian and French in my opinion. A lot of people forget that French also occupied as did the Spanish after the English as did the Indian

[@ashlyncaroline4206]

Austin Grathwol its very true i live in florida too

[@vincentakey2926]

As a Floridian all I can is bless your hearts

[@michaelmerrill6954]

Shout out from Thonotosassa!

[@stephengalindo6340]

Right down the road from ya, brother. Plant City!

[@subagon]

A bit closer to ya in Antioch!

[@Em16134]

Seffner!

[@heathercutler5114]

I used to live half a mile from Thonotossa. 😁

[@flamingpieherman9822]

Right next to you in northern seffner...

[@peachy_pancakes7977]

As a Floridian.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I live by Wauchula ( pronounced as a sneeze)

[@kaitlyne1870]

See, at least you have a fun way to tell people how to pronounce it. It's fun explaining how to pronounce Ybor to people. I'm glad it's my cousin who lives there and not me. 😂

[@peachy_pancakes7977]

I like going to Ybor city. Maybe say Eboy but with a "r not a "y

[@Zigarius1123]

I just tell people E-bor. Otherwise they're lost.. it's a whole nother story telling them take 275 to Tampa and getting to ybor central!

[@wyattwilliams2457]

I live near ellerbee curve, and macclenny.

[@Zigarius1123]

@@wyattwilliams2457 you're bout 40 minutes north of me

[@mylesbyars4115]

When she said “EAU sports it’s in the game” 😂😂😂

[@andrewp8284]

When she said that it's like "ah, I see you are a woman of culture."

[@jammersbeautyaj2731]

There is an EA office in Maitland, north of Orlando.

[@latergator3367]

All Ya’ll did real good ! We sometimes pronounce them wrong as well. That is why I live in Switzerland.....Florida ! We are very neutral. Go Gators !

[@geno5360]

"Go Gators" prolly doesn't sound so neutral to the 'Canes & "Noles fans

[@whj4x41]

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[@Nionium]

Florida is H o t at least there was some cool fronts the other week

[@FrankD71864]

Lol

[@coby-jamesharper7134]

LaterGator : go gators

[@HideAndGeekGames]

I didn't know how to pronounce a single one of these except Okeechobee. Y'all got all my towns last video. Alachua, Micanopy, Ocala. Those mispronunciations were the ones that hurt for me to hear.

[@cordelianoelle3644]

I was at an air show in Alachua and the announcer pronounced "ala-chew-a" I said God Bless you to a random person I was walking by and they just laughed. Also, I can't believe how people can't pronounce Ocala (which was native american as Ocali).

[@anne-marieshaffer6241]

I've been to Florida state organization meetings and heard counties mispronounced. What do you expect from a state that has a participation diploma for high school?

[@cordelianoelle3644]

@@anne-marieshaffer6241 Too many outsiders.

[@haileyiscommenting]

Everything they said about Florida is true, I live here and cant pronounce names. I live near a street spelled Hesperides

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Bless Your Heart! REALLY!

[@vincentakey2926]

Well in Greek mythology the Hesperides are nymphs of the golden light of sunsets and Florida being the sunshine state it seems fitting

[@haileyiscommenting]

@@vincentakey2926 cool fact, I was just remarking how it is pronounced weird 😂

[@vincentakey2926]

Hailey Teasley this is Florida almost everything is pronounced wierd

[@emilymulcahy]

@@vincentakey2926 hess-peer-uh-deez, no?

[@rjchavers9267]

So we're working with French, Spanish and Native American languages...Nice!

[@kaitlyne1870]

That's why out north is South and our south is North. We're just all kinds of mixed up down here! 😂

[@JGW845]

@@kaitlyne1870: Less than 30% of us in Florida were born here.When I was born (1945) the population was 2.6 million. There were 180 military installations in the state and 10,000 German POW's. When I graduated HS in 1963 the population was 5.63 million. Today the population is almost 21.5 million, the vast majority transplants.

[@malk67]

Oh and we've added some Japanese in for additional confusion.

[@lynyngragfunkyfoot3765]

@@JGW845 wish they would leave. Unfortunately it will be after Florida is destroyed.

[@briannab4037]

@@lynyngragfunkyfoot3765 Why would they destroy it?

[@oldsoul1765]

I’m from the panhandle where Wewahitchka is and we call it “Wewa” we never do say the whole word just Wewa

[@sambaritone]

Old soul yep, I grew up hearing about those “Wewa watermelons”. I’m surprised they didn’t include the Ochlokonee River, DeFuniak Springs, or Ponce DeLeon (pronounced PONCE de LE-on).

[@saltyoldwoman]

Same with Econlockhatchee. We just call it Econ!

[@oldsoul1765]

sambaritone agreed, I about died watching them butcher the 3 simple town names I know. But the watermelons and the Tupelo honey from Wewa is no joke honestly

[@alyceavary5542]

@@sambaritone I grew up near DeFuniak!! I wanna see them try Choctaw (lived in the area 16 years, still can't spell it!!) or Valparaiso!

[@tranurse]

Don’t forget Withalocoochee or even Palatka..

[@nonoactive8918]

I wait for people to try to pronounce new Smyrna Beach

[@kaitlyne1870]

I love how I look at that and think, "but that ones so easy! Doesn't everyone know that one?" And then I find out people don't! I thought a couple of the ones in the video were easy too, untill they tried to say them. 😂

[@riversideacres295]

Or Zephyrhills 😂

[@KonFess]

@@riversideacres295 people must remember the TV commercials for the bottled water, right?

[@nealatthecrossfishing]

Beautiful place!! Visited there once, from Georgia.

[@trevor3928]

Mbmb111 Thats where i live.

[@anyah_g]

I skipped the video I was watching for this. I’m not ashamed.

[@AJ-sx4zz]

Masaryktown is my hometown my family own a farm and every fall we do the largest corn maze in central Florida

[@Zigarius1123]

Never been, but I've had friends who loved it

[@brittany8640]

Love it! We’re from a VERY small area in the Florida panhandle known as Cerro Gordo, off the Choctawhatchee River. A little ways north of Sopchoppy and Wewahitchka. This was probably one of my favorite episodes!!

[@andrewp8284]

Hmm how is Choctawatchee pronounced...Choctaw-hat-chee? Chocta-wot-chee? Choctaw-hot-chee? Lol. At least Cerro Gordo is easier (except I can never roll Spanish double R's).

[@brittany8640]

Lonesome 77 lol you were close, choc-ta-HATCH-ee. And Cerro Gordo, we actually pronounce it as Sara Gorda. Not sure if that’s correct or just southern twang added but that’s how I’ve always heard it.

[@tranurse]

The Worm Gruntin’ festival is in Sopchoppy

[@bwpeterson2780]

I’m from Texas so Thonotosassa makes Texas seem tame

[@flip_lady_t]

BW Peterson Ha! No way 😆! I’m from Florida, and I saw the video they did on TX names. I think you guys got us beat 😁.

[@bwpeterson2780]

Trinity Glover Nacogdoches is tough but a Texas staple, just as common as Austin Dallas or Houston (woop woop)

[@rocklesson86]

Texan here and I concur.

[@SassyKassie]

I’ve lived in both so I get how ya feel!

[@melinnwflorida1762]

We call wewahitchka, WeeWaa...

[@nodakrome]

Came here to say that.

[@katienoble478]

Wewa

[@melinnwflorida1762]

@@katienoble478 I thought about that later, I tried to show how it was pronounced, but not how it was spelled... :)

[@IdentiMind]

I was saying the same thing like no one says the whole name it's just Wee Waa

[@christydavis2359]

Sopchoppy home of the worm grunting festival! Love it there!

[@tranurse]

I lived in Tallahassee for 20 years, gotta love Will kill you County...

[@Drewaparsons]

Okeechobee! Nice for the home town to get some representation.

[@malk67]

Outside of a "Florida Man" story.

[@footballmania1006]

I was watching It’s a Southern Thing when this notification came up !! 🤣🤣 Never too much of a good thing

[@jonathanorta9269]

Yall should include Wauchula, FL next time its a small town where i live in😂

[@dhatch04]

I got married there! (I’m originally from Arcadia)

[@jonathanorta9269]

@@dhatch04 whhhhaaaaaaaat💀⁉️⁉️⁉️ nobody knows where Wauchula is thats crazy😱

[@gatorfan0928]

Wauchula springs!!

[@redsnapper9410]

Cucumber capital of the world!

[@alyceavary5542]

@@jonathanorta9269 Isn't it near Tallahassee? I think I've seen the Tallahassee news talk about it.....and I'm in Georgia.

[@Em16134]

As someone who is very very much from Florida (7th generation born and raised here) I both relate to the struggle and cringe every time I hear one mispronounced

[@riggs20]

Impressive! I’m 5th generation as far as I’ve researched. We are few and far between!

[@urgirl_maci]

Yea, especially OKEECHOBEE. it's so easy and they struggled.

[@grumpymonk9908]

Y'all are very rare, I'm a 1st Gen, Moms from Oklahoma dad's from Virginia

[@davidbergerson]

@@riggs20Add a 6th generation Floridian to the list :) 3rd generation Dade County.

[@urgirl_maci]

​@@davidbergersonI'm a 6th gen Florida girl!

[@adiburgos4454]

What happened to Kissimmee?! As a Central Florida native I’m surprised by people not being able to say Kissimmee. I was also surprised by Oviedo. I live near Oviedo and go to school there 😂

[@GuyInBlackClothes]

Central Florida is by far the best part of Florida. From Weeki Wachee to Cape Canaveral.

[@yourLocalSentientThing]

I believe they done it in the first video

[@sallyphillips9175]

The black girl ... don't know her name but she is freaking HILARIOUS!!

[@dicesof8]

The funny part is all of this videos, it's the Native American Town names with few exceptions.

[@ryanv1279]

Almost like they are in a basically unknown language or something.

[@shelikes2read207]

y'all missed Kissimmee!

[@proudunitedstatesmarine280]

They did that one in the first video

[@Mimi-sf5sq]

I was lost from the get go. Good job trying y'all.

[@Gabe3N]

Who the frick doesn’t know how to pronounce Oviedo and Okeechobee?

[@Zigarius1123]

Yankees

[@carolinemorgan94]

Love these videos as much as the skits that you do.

[@tahimi3801]

I LIVE in Florida and have only heard of Okeechobee......

[@proudunitedstatesmarine280]

I love these videos, it's fun to try with y'all, there are so much more towns to try to pronounce

[@TXTGAL101]

I love these series

[@caitlinkerr8405]

OKEECHOBEE!!!! Love that place. Was waiting for you to put us as a town name.

[@angelfain8040]

Glad y'all put Wewahitchka, and Sopchoppy in there, very small gorgeous towns, used to go through there all the time on vacation.

[@CoffeeShopOracle]

I live in Loxahatchee and nearish Okeechobee. Listening to them pronounce a word I've grown up with, is hilarious

[@brianb8060]

I grew up in Jupiter Farms. I went to the rodeo in okeechobee a few times.

[@kaitlyne1870]

I only got two wrong! Woo! ... Sadly one was in central Florida (where I'm from) but it was on the other coast, so I don't feel too bad. I actually live near Eau Gallie and I've been to Okeechobee! We do have some crazy names down here. Mostly because a lot of them are Native American words. econlockhatchee is a fun one too!

[@tjones9111]

I use to live in Eau Gallie too live near Tampa now

[@lissalaine3317]

I live in the Eau Gallie area also and I remember how much I struggled to say it when I still lived out of state. It’s easy now. I love these videos. I get about half right which isn’t terrible having only lived here 4 years :-p

[@bwpeterson2780]

Love this series on my favorite channel

[@karenjones8128]

Yay,Calli's back.

[@WildFloridian]

This was fun! You did your best and I laughed 😄

[@KellyStaudenmier]

Ponte Vedra was so easy y’all! Glad I’m from Jacksonville! So easy to say lol! 😂😍

[@jeremysswiggs4405]

My little brother lost his fishing pole in Lake Okeechobee.

[@brianb8060]

Read as "lost my little brother in lake okeechobee". 😉

[@nathanbugg3221]

East TN names: Maryville, and Talbott. There's an r in both if you're from round here and no y in the first one. Another great video thanks ya'll

[@mandolinman2006]

Oh, yes. I've heard people pronounce Talbott and it sound more like a guttural grunt. And, if you pronounce it Mary-Ville, you will get laughed to shame. I mean, if you actually pronounce it Ville instead of vul, you're liable to get laughed at.

[@brookeking8559]

mandolinman2006, yes, lots of vuls in north Alabama and eastern Tennessee.

[@KonFess]

I always heard it said as Point Ver Day. To y'all who say there ain't no South in South Florida, come see Davie and Cooper City(Western motifs by City Ordnance). The Klan has mostly left South Florida for *The Villages*

[@klmeyer9907]

people from ne florida say pon tah vee dra.

[@Zigarius1123]

Flippin drunk old timers run you over with their golf carts high out if their minds headed to the next Viagra fuelled orgy. Highest std rate in the state. The villages are close to moving into my town

[@jammersbeautyaj2731]

Oviedo public library has chickens roaming the parking lot. Some call it the Chicken Library to distinguish it from the other branches which lack chicken ambassadors. lol!

[@llanorick]

Being from Tampa, I got a good laugh at this!

[@jodiew7472]

I literally live super near Eau Gallie so I looked at it and wondered why no one could pronounce it ahah.

[@tjones9111]

I went to elementary school in Eau Gallie

[@jodiew7472]

T Jones that’s cool! the school I currently go to is actually pretty close to eau galley, although I went to elementary school over on the island

[@baconcentral6258]

Was kinda hoping to see Clewiston on there

[@elizabethtorres3491]

You know what i do BELIEVE I have watched all of y'all video's. 😀🖖🐩. THANKS!

[@kristianmir9783]

As a central Floridan I knew most of these and I cringed a little for the ones that are widely known like Okeechobee

[@hmozachsown]

I love that you got the vast majority of places I've lived

[@TheDellaniOakes]

I'm so happy you had Sopchoppy in this lineup! Thank you!! Admittedly, I didn't know them all either, but I'm not a lifelong Floridian, only been here 31 years

[@TheShockaholic]

Only reason I knew that last one is because I watched “That’s So Raven” as a kid.

[@janessaW]

I live in South Florida, and all of the names down here are pretty normal for the most part. Or maybe it's just me😅

[@izzyb9098]

So funny 😂! You guys should do Pennsylvania

[@masonpyle5929]

I lived in Florida most my life and I mainly heard of Ponte Vedra(Since it’s close to Jacksonville) and Okeechobee. I don’t know why we have so many Indian name towns.

[@lisak5629]

Uh, the Seminoles and other tribes here first... then along came the Spaniards.

[@malk67]

@@lisak5629, Mikasuki as well.

[@dracoloverable]

I only knew how to pronounce Oviedo because in high school I looked at moving there since it still was giving me the small town southern feel and in my favorite state.

[@cmm07r]

Only one I couldnt get was that one near Tampa. I was amazed to see Eau Gallie on there. Leaving only a couple minutes away from it all my life, I just considered it a common name to say, especially since it had the most common causeway to get to the beach.

[@LeosHouse]

Hell I live here, and I hadn’t heard of some of those places! lol 😂

[@heathercutler5114]

Same here!🤭

[@LeosHouse]

Heather Cutler 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

[@AwesomeChickk101]

Great video! I'm born and raised in central Fl and only knew half of them lol.

[@CavTanker88]

Bless your hearts. You tried your best!

[@Rotokyo]

This is gon' be good

[@plummerelijahep]

I love how I got okeechobee from that's so raven

[@teresawise7331]

Florida, slow down with those letters! You don't have to use half the alphabet. Lol

[@kaitlyne1870]

Well now, where's the fun in that? 😂 Although, technically we don't use half the alphabet. We only use about 1/4 of it, we just use each letter several times. 😂

[@shortysn]

Exciting to see your hometown of Thonotosassa in a video.

[@flamingpieherman9822]

Hey I live 1 mile from thonotosassa!...pronounced tho no toe sassa. Right outside Tampa to the east...means many lakes I think

[@Krissy331]

🤦🏽‍♀️ Wow my state names. 😆. The only one I knew was Okeechobee cause I have been there 😆.

[@Zigarius1123]

Y'all need to come to central Florida and South of Ocala and north of Tampa. Eat some of this good food and meet some folks. Edit - Its pronounced muh-zark-town. You guys should look for places to pronounce around that area. Trillacoochee, withlacoochee, trilbacoochee etc.

[@marcusblackmonjr13]

Me and my friends usually call cities by their area code or abbreviated names

[@timwoodruff]

0:48 A Ton of Salsa

[@rachle81]

Bless y'all...I live in Oviedo and it gets pronounced "Oh Vee AYYY do" so so much.

[@JayFude]

Oklawhaha, Panasoffkee, Occoe, The Halpata Tastanaki, Homosassa, Ozello, these are where I grew up! Fishing on Apopka then going up to Palatka, or down to Narcoossee to get some bass, good times! I miss the weather, but I don't miss the people (tourists, I'm giving you the stink eye!).

[@KarinaDoRego]

Me, a Floridian: 🤣🤣🤣 Hell, I can't pronounce some of these!

[@BlindingDarkness1111]

ROUND 2: Southerns try to pronounce Welsh town names 😳🤣🤣🤣

[@julieenslow5915]

NO!! That would be cruel and unusual punishment!!! LOL

[@johnebakeriii]

My favorite town name: Micanopy. My favorite street name: Hypolita [in St. Augustine]

[@madtypr]

The movie Doc Hollywood was filmed there; it's such a cute town.

[@Biggin1989]

Being from okeechobee it's funny hearing yall try to pronounce it lol

[@MaineCoonMama18]

This one was hilarious because I knew most of them. It's weird hearing other people try to guess.

[@Maykdealz]

the only one i got right was the last one because of a old jack benny skit he would say florida names on a train

[@thatwiseoldbitchchannel]

LOL! Florida born and raised... A lot of the names of from the Timacua tribe...

[@npeace312]

I still get dividend checks from the Withlacoochee electric cooperative and love saying the name.

[@loraharrison1172]

I love these Native American town names!

[@squeezeoreo9211]

Did they just say Florida is more human than Alabama Like boi y u gotta be like that

[@sweetbamabelle]

IKR!!!

[@Mac-nu8hr]

I thought she said humid

[@teresawise7331]

HUMID. She said humid. Lol

[@Editorknowsbest]

I would have loved to see Matt give this a try

[@nicolemorgan2167]

I've been to just outside Okeechobee in Belle Glade!

[@MaoSharliz]

LOL, as a Floridian I can tell you that we take for granted the fact that we can pronounce most of these, but if you ask us to spell them, well that's a whole other story.

[@StarSapphire93]

Eau Gallie is nearby and that was painful. Nothing will ever be as painful as their previous ax murder of Kissimmee but still. *cries*

[@travisjohnson6032]

Funniest thing i have seen in years!!. Thanks for the good laughs keep um cummin.!

[@peggymallon4585]

I was born in Miami when it was very southern and still live in southwest Broward. The favorite park of my kids is in Hollywood, Topeekeegee Yugnee Park, otherwise known as TY Park for obvious reasons.

[@jordanwhitaker7928]

I Love being from the small town of Lake Butler Florida 😁😂

[@madtypr]

I have lots of family there.

[@jordanwhitaker7928]

@@madtypr from Lake Butler?

[@madtypr]

Yes, Lake Butler.

[@reaganpettis]

Happy Sunday everyone

[@metrodagoat4326]

Lake worth love u guys

[@michaelutley128]

Glad Callie is back!

[@huffyhuffy4305]

I live South of the Withlacoochee, and North of Homosassa and the Chassahowitzka. God, I love middle-of-nowhere Florida.

[@heidimarchant5438]

I'm originally from North Central Florida and the only one I've heard of is Okeechobee 😂

[@malk67]

Well Okeechobee is somewhat famous for "Florida Man" stories and a Nasty lake.

[@MrsAlmaTrumble]

LMBO. Y'all should do Maine. My hubby is from their and I'm from Tennessee.

[@YQLbeast]

I’m from Northern Florida. And the one girl got it right, it’s truly Pawn-traw Veh-druh. That’s how we locals pronounce it anyway.

[@BiteSizedCrafter]

When she said EA Sports I nearly lost it. xp

[@NickCorvello]

The guy in the glasses got the most right and with confidence too. Did he spend some time down here? 😁