Americans pronounce some of these differently depending on the part of the country. I guess technically the locals who live there are the ultimate arbiters as to the correct pronunciation.
@dbsagacious2 жыл бұрын
I totally agree. Except for Nevada. I'm just convinced they are just trying to troll everyone with that stupid pronunciation lol
@leslust2 жыл бұрын
except for Nevada because it’s literally Spanish
@Twichl2 жыл бұрын
Anyone who's been to nevada would know they pronounce all of their Spanish names incorrectly... but at the end of the day it's still the names of their stuff
@krayzy9322 жыл бұрын
@@Twichl I think Caliente is one of the few cities pronounced correctly.
@reanimated2 жыл бұрын
Consensus don't always mean correct. In my city, the horrible gringos insist on calling a street named Guadalupe "Guada-loop." I will die on this hill. I will not fuck up a word that badly, in any language. It's just ignorant.
@orphu882 жыл бұрын
Millie, we've always known you're a true American at heart. And we can make James an Honorary American.
@wizloon90522 жыл бұрын
I think Millie's father is American.
@Do0msday2 жыл бұрын
I love how Millie is showing more and more sass. The 2 of you will be full-blooded Americans in no time haha.
@MattWolfe10192 жыл бұрын
Word
@VikingCarter2 жыл бұрын
This for sure.
@DizzNutt932 жыл бұрын
In my Spanish classes, we were taught that the proper pronunciation of Uruguay is "oor-a-gwhy" and "Chile" is "chill-ay"
@swaffdog65212 жыл бұрын
I was taught in my Spanish class to pronounce Chile as Chee-lay.
@DizzNutt932 жыл бұрын
@@swaffdog6521 that's actually right, I meant that but didn't think too much about the spelling.
@pnwdweler41002 жыл бұрын
Ooroogwhy.
@santiagoperez54312 жыл бұрын
@@swaffdog6521 Chee-le
@pepperVenge2 жыл бұрын
Chile is more accurately pronounced as _Chee - Lay_
@darrinlindsey2 жыл бұрын
Millie had Potomac exactly right, the first time. But, after James said it wrong, so many times, she then said it wrong before starting the video.
@JoeBoKnows2 жыл бұрын
Na she didn't lol
@richardeshom49852 жыл бұрын
I am with you, Darrin. She kept trying to slur it into semi-intelligible syllables. She nailed that the accent was on the middle syllable, and the vowels were imperfect (just like most Americans are).
@wolffriendinus2 жыл бұрын
She said it right the first time, but the more she said it the worse it got. Finally at the end she was just saying it too fast and totally missing the second syllable.
@kurtlee822 жыл бұрын
Millie nailed it! I didn't think you'd get Appalachia because of your mini stroke over Potomac lol. Y'all are great! Much love
@ashtaylor41072 жыл бұрын
She didn’t quite get Appalachia, but I think she was actually pretty correct with Potomac until she started getting too fast with it. Not everyone puts so much emphasis on the “toe”. I usually say it a bit more subtly, but the emphasis is still stressed on the “toe”.
@clovesjs2 жыл бұрын
Weird. We lived in New Orleans for about 5 years. We always heard/said ‘nu-all-inns’.
@piperbird71932 жыл бұрын
Louisville Ky girl here. For some reason on the news, the reporters always say 'Loo-EE-vill' those of us who actually live here just say loo-vul or lew-vul.
@jackedwards74202 жыл бұрын
I live in West Tennessee and within 100 or so miles I can be in Milan, Paris, Moscow, Corinth, Memphis, Athens, Rome, Melbourne, Sparta, Lebanon and many others! It's like a world tour!
@terdsie2 жыл бұрын
I was incredibly impressed that you confidently, and with zero hesitation, correctly pronounced "Nevada". That was awesome.
@bms91442 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I have witnessed people in Nevada get kinda pissed about it being pronounced wrong - think mid-sentence corrections. But I doubt such stern rebukes would happen to someone with a British accent, or any foreign accent. Californians should probably know better.
@ShawnTheDriver2 жыл бұрын
I can’t believe none of these videos ever have Michigan cities in them. I always have fun trying to get people to pronounce Ypsilanti and Sault Sainte Marie 🤣
@ETC_Rohaly_USCG2 жыл бұрын
Soo-Saint-Marie? (Had a few Coastie buddies stationed there). Yet most of the rest of us have a different, and sadly tragic name for it… 😞
@diannestucki57322 жыл бұрын
Or Mackinac Island! Or Charlevoix.
@mountaineer_472 жыл бұрын
Michigan has sooooo many. I saw a video by a creator that was trying to get people to try pronouncing Michigan cities, but I can't remember the channel name
@AJ-tiltagirl2 жыл бұрын
Tawas, Ossineke, Osceola, Oscoda, Cheboygan, Au Gres, etc... Had a friend from Texas who lived near Ossineke for a while and he used to say Oh-SIN-ick-ee.
@DHarvey95EQ2 жыл бұрын
She’s actually saying Potomac with a Maryland accent as we have “Potomac” named landmarks and schools in the state
@wolffriendinus2 жыл бұрын
Until she started saying it too fast
@manenkoff2 жыл бұрын
You'll find that a number of these differ even within the US because of local "slang" and accents. Several of these are pronounced differently in various parts of the US due to that. You'll also find the "official" pronunciation of some of these places being what you expect, but sounding different from the locals because of that "slang/accent" issue.
@courtneyraymer6586 Жыл бұрын
Yes, I was surprised when Louisville was mentioned as “Loo-uh-vull”,but Nashville and New Orleans weren’t mentioned. I’ve heard the natives of both places say, “Na-eesh-vull and “Nyawlins”,respectively.
@timsuspanic79052 жыл бұрын
I've heard many Southerners call "New Orleans" "N'aulins".
@meghanmcintosh1352 жыл бұрын
But not people from there. Georgia and Mississippi are well known for mangling New Orleans
@Oturan202 жыл бұрын
I've never heard anyone in Arkansas call them that.
@GinaMarieCheeseman2 жыл бұрын
People in New Orleans say it that way.
@melweathers912 жыл бұрын
@@GinaMarieCheeseman It would be said as a joke if they say that way or they just moved there
@jonathancripe57762 жыл бұрын
@@meghanmcintosh135 Its like how we in Georgia laugh when people pronounce every T in Atlanta. Its the quickest way to spot a tourist or a recent transplant. We pronounce our state capitol as Atlanna.
@Wiley_Coyote2 жыл бұрын
You gotta get around to the State series he's doing, with town pronunciations quizzed State by State. He's only two in (I think he's only doing like one per week).
@jedimastercaeli2 жыл бұрын
My husband is from a small town in Pennsylvania. They have a road called Menoher. Stupid thing is pronounced "meh-nok-rrr". Like what the heck! 🤣😄
@kay_sou2 жыл бұрын
To be fair here, many Americans pronounce some of these incorrectly as well. Louisville and Nevada especially.
@BostonSports_BM2 жыл бұрын
*The Massachusetts part at the beginning* Those of us in Massachusetts pronounce Worcester etc the same as you guys. People from other states have issues with Massachusetts town names. Great video as usual!
@umaiar2 жыл бұрын
Ah Schenectady, a city name easily pronounced with body parts. Skin, Neck, and... Well, you can figure the rest out.
@ETC_Rohaly_USCG2 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@LukaDonesnitch Жыл бұрын
Catskill is pretty easy for people to pronounce.
@whyaddnamehere2 жыл бұрын
I live near Louisville, Ky. It's Loo-a-vul. Any other pronunciation is like listening to nails on a chalkboard.😆😆😆
@jaya.d-gauthier16442 жыл бұрын
Louisville: loouh-vull The other 49 states + Millie: yeah that’s not how it’s written though 😐
@kennethcook94062 жыл бұрын
That's just because Louisville, Kentucky was named after the French King(s) Louisville, Colorado was named after its founder, whose name was Louis; and he wasn't French.
@Fool3SufferingFools2 жыл бұрын
If you were going to pronounce it the actual French way, it would be L’wee-VEEL, but no one speaking English would ever say that.
@jaya.d-gauthier16442 жыл бұрын
@@kennethcook9406 Lol I know. I speak French. Twas a joke :)
@jaya.d-gauthier16442 жыл бұрын
@@Fool3SufferingFools My last name is French. A lot of random English phrases in Louisiana came from translated French too literally. Making the groceries instead of grocery shopping “aller faire les courses” etc.
@piperbird71932 жыл бұрын
When I first moved to Kentucky in 1999, I had assumed Lousiville was named for Lewis and Clark, since Clarksville is just over the river. At the time I was living in Lexington and working in Versailles (Ver-sailes). Been in Louisville 17 years now.
@darcyjorgensen5808 Жыл бұрын
Delhi is DELL-high, Versailles is vur-SALES, New Madrid is New MADD-rid.
@paulsmith85102 жыл бұрын
Appalachia can be said either way. They span from Maine to Georgia. The north and south pronounce it differently. However here in New England we will refer to the souther part of the range with the southern pronunciation
@psmolek74382 жыл бұрын
I live in Michigan we have a Charlotte, just like North Carolina. However, ours is pronounce shar-LOT, theirs, SHAR-let. So, pronunciations vary according to locations, too.
@Emma77x72 жыл бұрын
I hope this makes you feel better... I have lived all over the U.S.A. and you will find different pronunciations in different areas, they call it colloquialism. So, depending on where you live here, and the accent from that area, you will get a variety of ways to pronounce places! God bless you both!
@jacob49202 жыл бұрын
America is a veritable SWAMP of numerous "dialects" on the same language. I stopped trying to pin them all down a long time ago.
@Emma77x72 жыл бұрын
@@jacob4920 I was born in the North, grew up in the south, relocated in the west, living again in the North. My accent changes with whoever I am speaking. I find that after living all over the U.S., that I, without thinking about it, take on the accent of whoever I am speaking to! Strange, I know, but helpful when making others comfortable in conversation. Love your videos, you two are refreshing compared to all the other voices on KZbin. God bless you mightily!
@andromeda8rose2 жыл бұрын
You're thinking of dialect and pronunciation, a colloquialism is slang or an idiom that is from one area
@zeus9822 жыл бұрын
I’m absolutely losing it at you two completely forgetting how you pronounced it like 30 seconds earlier lol
@Stefnmaddy2 жыл бұрын
Right?! Lol. The best.
@Perfectly_Cromulent3512 жыл бұрын
Another one that Brits seem to get wrong is “Los Angeles”, which they like call “Los Angeleeez”.
@JosephRussellStapleton2 жыл бұрын
This drives me insane, and I don't even know why.
@S1D3W1ND3R0152 жыл бұрын
As an American. I very rarely hear anyone say the full name. Everyone just calls it LA.
@jedimastercaeli2 жыл бұрын
@@S1D3W1ND3R015 I was born and raised there ( 8th generation Los Angelonian here) and we've always said Los Angeles. The only time we say "L.A." is when we say East L.A. "L.A." became way more popular in the late 90s and has become more normal the more transplants move there.
@S1D3W1ND3R0152 жыл бұрын
@@jedimastercaeli Yeah I wasn't a very good spokesman as I've never lived there. Lol. I just never really hear it as the full name. I've always heard people say LA
@jedimastercaeli2 жыл бұрын
@@S1D3W1ND3R015 lol no worries. I just wanted to give a natives perspective. I don't live there anymore and I'm not sure anyone can pay me enough to move back. 🤣
@reneehomen22262 жыл бұрын
From a previous comment, I must agree, that you James and Millie are honorary Americans! Welcome. I live in Massachusetts and it makes me giggle when people mispronounce Wocester, or Dorchester... etc.
@67swisslisa2 жыл бұрын
If you get the chance to visit the US again, may I just say that NYC doesn't completely represent the rest of the country. There are good and bad things about all 50 states, but if you can, check out a "less tourist-y" city. Usually, it's a lot less expensive w/out big city taxes. Hope you enjoy wherever you visit! :)
@jwb52z92 жыл бұрын
It's more expensive for non-Americans to go to places that aren't for tourists in terms of flights.
@OklasoonaHomer2 жыл бұрын
There is also a town in Missouri named "Nevada" that the locals pronounce "nuh-vay-duh". And just up the road from where I live is Miami, Oklahoma. Whereas the Florida city is pronounced "my-am-ee", in Oklahoma it's "my-am-uh"
@joecovey22352 жыл бұрын
Your girlfriend got the correct American pronunciation of "Potomac" right off the bat. Gotta give credit where due. Nailed it even if in her English accent. ;)
@darnoc00102 жыл бұрын
Sorry but your wrong. She said poe-tm-ic instead of puh-toe-m'ck. It was a good try though.
@swissuz2 жыл бұрын
I believe they are married. I could be wrong, but they are "The Beezleys"...and I don't think they are brother or sister either. I've only started watching them for a few months, but I've picked up a few comments that sound like they are married.
@swissuz2 жыл бұрын
@@darnoc0010 I have to disagree as well...I thought she said it correctly the first time she said it.
@twinklingeyes582 жыл бұрын
@@darnoc0010 I agree with you she got it wrong the first time. She said Patemic with no emphasis on the second syllable Pa-TOE-mic
@PeteQuad2 жыл бұрын
It was close enough the first time that no one would notice in normal conversation. I'm sure it was better than many Americans.
@duanehamilton4962 жыл бұрын
I heard a joke by Mell Brooks (Creator of Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein). He said that when English Settlers asked the natives, "What is the name of this place?" They answered in their own language, "What, do I look like tour guide?" The names stuck.
@Alex-kd5xc2 жыл бұрын
Uruguay in Spanish is pronounced something like ooo-roog-why except the G is very subtle and the R would be short. I don’t know how to explain it but many of the spoken sounds in Spanish don’t even have an equivalent in English so I won’t try lol Also, Louisville has different pronunciations depending on where you’re at. I’ve heard Lewey-ville or Lew-uh-vull most often
@kennethcook94062 жыл бұрын
The Louisville thing is true, IF you're talking about the one in Kentucky. The one where I live (Louisville, Colorado) is pronounced 'Loo-iss-ville" because it was named for its founder, a guy named Louis. Not Louie, and not French.
@reanimated2 жыл бұрын
Biggest challenge I think is that U sits alone. Like you said, the OO. there's no Y sound. Lou-ah-ville is a good approximation. New Or'lenz is perfecto. As a Tejana, I'm offended on behalf of the entire state of NeVAHda for what they've done to it. And I will physically cringe if I hear Colo-rad-o instead of ColoRAHdo, which was touched on in the one about 50 state accents.
@kennethcook94062 жыл бұрын
@@reanimated Well, we here in Colorado almost universally say 'call-ah-RHAD-oh' with the 'aah' sound, like when you're surprised you might exclaim "Aah!" And I should know, I was born here and have lived here my entire life.
@richardeshom49852 жыл бұрын
My most frequent encounter from natives (in Kentucky) sounded like the even further contracted "Loo'vl".
@kennethcook94062 жыл бұрын
@@richardeshom4985 I just can't resist a bit of Jeff Foxworthy humor here. "Ya'll go'in tah Looahvhule? Hop on, I'll geetcha there. Won't take but a squeak from a possum's butt! Just be careful of that beaver.
@Railtech_63.2 жыл бұрын
Always enjoy our channel, love how you Millie interact with each other. Be keep sharing.
@C.O.G.2 жыл бұрын
Hi, Beesleys. As a native of Appalachia, I can tell you that we southerners do insist that "App-uh-latch-uh" is the right way to pronounce the name of our mountain range. Millie, you did very well in your pronunciation of most of these place names. Two thumbs up! 👍👍
@matildamiller32332 жыл бұрын
Exactly!! Native Appalachian myself, and I get so aggravated when some try to "correct" my pronunciation of MY HOME. So many try to adopt an "English rules" pronunciation, and have no idea that it is not an English word, hence, not an English pronunciation. I don't care how others pronounce it, it makes it clear they aren't natives here. But it sure gets my goat when they try to correct ME.
@C.O.G.2 жыл бұрын
@@matildamiller3233, I agree. The name Appalachia comes from the name of a Muskogean tribe in northwest Florida; the Appalachee (App-uh-latch-ee) which is pronounced very similarly to the way we say Appalachia today. Take care, fellow Appalachian! (North-east Tennessee, here.)
@matildamiller32332 жыл бұрын
@@C.O.G. east TN here as well 😁
@warrendavis92622 жыл бұрын
Millie! Dudette! You just karate chopped James high five without even the common decency of a "Hiiiiiiya!"
@ginny57642 жыл бұрын
I finally subscribed to Lost in the Pond, but I subscribed to you both first!
@emilyb53072 жыл бұрын
I've got a family in Massachusetts, and that state has an amazing mix of English-inspired and native names that are then locally pronounced the opposite of what you may expect! "Leominster" = "lemon-ster", "Worcester" = Wuh-stir (or, "wuh-stah!"), Scituate = "sitch-oo- it", and so on. Drives non-locals crazy sometimes.
@mescko2 жыл бұрын
Unlike many instances, the pronunciation of Worcester is exactly like the Brits pronounce it. So is Leominster.
@johnnyb60672 жыл бұрын
A guy my father worked with was late his first day on the job because he was looking for the “Woostah” exit.
@ercokatty2 жыл бұрын
@@mescko Agreed. We pronounce those exactly as the Brits do. I’m not sure what his point is there.
@mescko2 жыл бұрын
@@ercokatty He may not know how the Brits pronounce those place names. Most Americans don't. I hear ads on my local radio for Berkshire Hathaway realty and they obviously have no idea how the Brits pronounce Berkshire.
@pointlessvideos23212 жыл бұрын
My bottle of water spilled on my schedule… ;) Also many of these pronunciations have more than one way to say them. New Orleans can be pronounced new orleens or new orlins. I’ve heard Nevada pronounced both ways that u said as well.
@scottbright22072 жыл бұрын
I live in a small town of Centre "pronounced center" on Weiss Lake
@codygates74182 жыл бұрын
Many American names in the western states have Spanish names. Due to Mexico being apart of that area before the Mexican-American war. A lot of northeast/New England have British location names! Also as someone from Kentucky NO ONE but, born and raised Kentuckians know how to say Louisville correctly (it is literally like nails on a chalkboard when someone say it wrong) lol 😂 also Millie you should KNOW by now us southerns never say it the way it’s written haha
@Lisah7072 жыл бұрын
I’m from NorCal, and “Frisco” and “San Fran” are nails on a chalkboard
@ZedrikVonKatmahl2 жыл бұрын
What is the correct way to pronounce Louisville according to Kentuckians?
@Lisah7072 жыл бұрын
@@ZedrikVonKatmahl “Lou vil”
@piperbird71932 жыл бұрын
New England does have a lot of British location names, but we also have a TON of native american names as well. Some are tricky to say even if you grew up here.
@TheGuyCalledX Жыл бұрын
@@Lisah707San Fran is, Frisco is just a funny meme because it annoys people from the city
@paigejobe48922 жыл бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyed this video! I would LOVE to see y’all make a video solely on the state of Louisiana. Louisiana is the only state in America that has parishes instead of counties like the rest of the country. The names of some of our parishes are quite difficult to pronounce and same goes for some last names of our Louisiana natives. Here’s some examples for you 😉…the parish of Ouachita (pronounced as “WASH•ah•taw”); the parish of Tchefuncte (pronounced as “chuh•FUNK•tuh”). A very common last name for a lot of Louisiana natives is Boudreaux (pronounced as “BOO•dro”); Melancon (pronounced as “muh•LAW•saw” and sometimes as “muh•LAW•sawn”). Just the other day I heard someone on Tiktok trying to pronounce Boudreaux as “bow•de•ox” 😂. I’d absolutely love to hear what y’all think of our Louisiana Cajun dialect 😘😘
@Caeleinn2 жыл бұрын
The town that always threw me was Natchitoches. When I was told (by people who live there) that it is pronounced "Nack -a-dish", I think my brain exploded. 🤯🤪 Still, in my state of Mississippi, we have Shuqualak...pronounced locally as "Shug-a-lock". 🤷♀
@omggiiirl20772 жыл бұрын
Just wait until you get to the the Hawaiian and Samoan names. I'd love to see them try especially some of the longer ones. Even some of the MIcronesian names are a bit complicated. Even here in Washington, we have place names like Puyallup, rainier, and Sequim. I just wish there were more first nations names, because place names preserve languages.
@Saasan2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'd say a good third of the names in the Pacific Northwest are based off local languages. I'd love to see/hear reactions to them!
@Danny-hq7ix2 жыл бұрын
Here's a partial list of names from the Pacific Northwest (in no particular order and not all are from native languages): Chinook, Willamette, Tualatin, Tanasbourne, Chemeketa, Siskiyou, Umpqua, Oregon, Camas, Lacamas, Clackamas, Ochoco, Skamokawa, Wahkiakum, Kahlotus, Ilwaco, Chewelah, Wenatchee, Aeneas, Okanogan, Steilacoom, Swinomish, Tshletshy, Clatskanie, The Dalles, Champoeg, Yachats, Aloha, Lebanon, Milwaukie, Scappoose, Umatilla, Estacada, Nyssa, Gervais, Deschutes, Chiloquin, Chehalis, Hoquiem, Snoqualmie, Washtucna
@teresaanderson21362 жыл бұрын
Great reaction clip...I love he mentioned where I am from, Schererville Indiana 😁
@koehlhenely21062 жыл бұрын
Here in Oregon we have the weirdest name pronunciation you'll find. The city Aloha(uh-loh-uh), a street in Portland named Couch(Cooch), Gleneden(glen-uhd-un) beach and much more. All pronounced completely messed up and I don't know why. However some of them are based on Native American names that are difficult too like Champoeg(shampooie), or the Willamette(wuh-la-muht) river or Chautauqua(shuh-taa-kwuh).
@jeffburdick8692 жыл бұрын
forget those specific places. The amount of people who pronounce Oregon incorrectly is just awful.
@joanwood94802 жыл бұрын
Funny. Chautauqua. It's a county in NYS. But not pronounced with the soft sh at the beginning. It starts with the hard ch. Every thing else is the same
@hwyla44162 жыл бұрын
Oooo… I forgot about Aloha! Having grown up in Hawaii, I was pronouncing it like the Hawaiian word until I heard it said a few times. I found it very surprising since it was actually named that because of Hawaiians who moved there!
@MichaelScheele2 жыл бұрын
People in east of the Rocky Mountains pronounce the state of "Oregon" as "oar ee GONE". People from Oregon or nearby states say "OAR ih gun". Some people from the east pronounce "Washington" as "Warsh ing ton". Locals, "Wash ing tin".
@purpleskiesforever2 жыл бұрын
I always pronounced it or-eh-ghen
@nicholasperez41022 жыл бұрын
As someone from the Oregon, I pronounce it ore-gin
@RayWhiting2 жыл бұрын
Place names all over Louisiana can be astonishingly horrid. HORRID. This is a city in Louisiana: Natchitoches Locals and other Louisianians pronounce it NACK-a-dish. another one is Tchoupitoulas -- CHOP-i-TOO-less What fun, eh?
@xemnas90982 жыл бұрын
Texas has quite a few as well. When I was a kid I used call Waco "Whacko" and my relatives would correct the way I said it.
@cobbsnocker2 жыл бұрын
We have a Louisville in Mississippi and it's pronounced "Lewis-ville" here.
@susanhumphrey64272 жыл бұрын
Completely depends on where you’re from in the US. Southern US states pronounce Nevada as “Ne-vah-da”. Same as Colorado..southern folks say “Cahl-oh-rah-doe” not “Cahl-oh-rad-hoe” 😂
@Oturan202 жыл бұрын
We can't help our accents, dammit.😅
@ETC_Rohaly_USCG2 жыл бұрын
Here’s one for you. I’ve lived in both North and South Carolina during my military career, and both have a city named “Beaufort”… NC residents pronounce it “BOW-fort” SC is “bew-FORD” Both are technically right, if you think of the conflict between “Beautiful” and the French word “Beau” Definitely an interesting way to tell what state the person was from. ;)
@epa3162 жыл бұрын
Before I even watch the video: There’s no “gawn” in Oregon.
@scrapperiam4632 жыл бұрын
A lot of Americans say "Looeyville". Millie said it right the first time for Potomac.
@jeremygilbert79892 жыл бұрын
A shame my home state didn't make the list, though I could go a lifetime without ever having to hear someone butcher the pronunciation of the Willamette river again, much less the state of Oregon(Seriously, how do people screw that one up so often?)
@ashleydixon46132 жыл бұрын
Before I ever went to Portland for the first time- i’m there at least twice a year now-I made sure to learn the correct pronunciation of Willamette! Lol I just knew it would have a very specific local pronunciation. Just like here in Arkansas, there are cities like Monticello, El Dorado, and Searcy that I guarantee aren’t pronounced the way these place names are usually pronounced. (I live in Saline County, but it’s pronounced sah-LEEN, even though it does refer to the salt licks found in the area.)
@jessieg582 жыл бұрын
I think I lose a year off my lifespan every time I hear someone say “Ore-GONE”
@johnhawkins96262 жыл бұрын
You Oar-goan-ee-ans have funny names just like us who live on the other side of the Columbia. Of course, if you drive south on 199 or 101, do you end up in Del Nor-tay county, or Del Nort?
@katneyens7662 жыл бұрын
Born in OR E GONE and live in WAR SHIN TUN . I feel ya!
@roniboyd6132 жыл бұрын
@@jessieg58 Oh Lordy! I don't know why this one irritates me to no end. And a lot of t.v. personalities pronounce it Ore-GONE, seriously?😵
@thegingergyrl4552 жыл бұрын
My husband was born and raised in Las Vegas, NV and he always corrects me on the pronunciation of the state.
@kittycatgaminghayley62102 жыл бұрын
I live in Massachusetts and we kept the British pronunciations (you can tell if someone just moved here when they try to pronounce Haverhill, Worcester, Leicester, Lowell, Billerica, Dorchester after they learned how to pronounce Worcester, etc...) and we also have a lake whose name is 45 letters long (it’s comes the Loup Language). If you want to hear people from other parts of the country try to say our place names look up trying to pronounce Massachusetts place names because not only are some British but there are also native names that some people do mispronounce (Massachusetts is one of the names that gets mispronounced)
@MichaelScheele2 жыл бұрын
Is the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, pronounced by people from Boston as "WUH stah"? That's what I remember from my time in Massachusetts. I went to college in Cambridge and visited Worcester for a concert or two at the Centrum.
@kittycatgaminghayley62102 жыл бұрын
@@MichaelScheele Boston is not the only place that has that accent because the Boston accent is actually apart of Eastern New England English.
@MichaelScheele2 жыл бұрын
@@kittycatgaminghayley6210, a college classmate of mine is from Fall River. Her accent is slightly different than I what I normally encountered in Boston. To my ears, the accent became less pronounced as I went further west in Massachusetts, like Springfield.
@kittycatgaminghayley62102 жыл бұрын
@@MichaelScheele that’s because western Massachusetts isn’t apart of Eastern New England English and instead apart of Western New England English (yes those are both categories) so the accents are different
@ercokatty2 жыл бұрын
@@kittycatgaminghayley6210 Even people 20 miles west of Boston don’t have these accents for the most part.
@RexFuturi2 жыл бұрын
Best of all, Americans love to name towns after foreign places and then mispronounced them. Lima, Ohio is named after Lima, Peru, but is pronounced LIE-MUH. Again in Ohio (my Native State), you'll find Versailles pronounced VER-SAILZ. And there are plenty more.
@evilthekid33702 жыл бұрын
From the Spanish that I know, Uruguay would be pronounced "oo-roo-gwhy" and Chile would be "chee-lay"
@jueneturner83312 жыл бұрын
East of the Mississippi it is usually pronounced Nevada, "Nuh vah duh".
@patrickchambers59992 жыл бұрын
Millie- it's pronounced Lost Wages, Nevada, not Los Vegas, Nevada.
@SherriLyle80s2 жыл бұрын
😂 😂 😆
@kennethohnemus31922 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@elizabethtrainer97322 жыл бұрын
Yes! Another informative video...thank you.
@SherriLyle80s2 жыл бұрын
As a native around Wash DC and Virginia, Millie got Potomac correct, or the closest.
@karinwtfont2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I live in Arlington, Va and I say she got it right. 👍🏻
@MattWolfe10192 жыл бұрын
Yeah I'm a Marylander born and raised in Maryland about an hour or so away from DC and she got Potomac right the first time or at least she was close.
@Keyee12 жыл бұрын
Lived in Virginia as a kid. We pronounced the Potomac River, Puh-toe'-mick emphasis on the..toe.
@dayrever10102 жыл бұрын
You two are so adorable. I love your videos.
@HistoryNerd8082 жыл бұрын
Y'all in England butcher French. We in the US butcher Spanish, French, and a whole heap of other languages that this country has historically been in contact with.
@Wiley_Coyote2 жыл бұрын
Probably not Millie. She's lived her entire life on an Island 14 miles away from France.
@nA-kc1lx2 жыл бұрын
Speak for yourself
@lone67182 жыл бұрын
Well yes but no…..depending upon who you talk to.
@jimgreen57882 жыл бұрын
Michael Hill, those of us living near Chicago (me about 1.5 hrs. away) do a rather decent job of butchering Polish as well. But, we're not alone in that. Ever hear Hispanics say chick-AWE-go? Japanese have a hard time with "L", and Germans who learn English later in life have a hard time with "W", as in "VIP-er-vill" for whippoorwill.
@HistoryNerd8082 жыл бұрын
@@jimgreen5788 Well, yes, of course, every country struggles with pronouncing other languages'(or even their own) words. For instance, a lot of foreigners have a hard time with the th in English because it's such a rare sound internationally. Those barriers and bastardizations translate into places too.
@nicvicious12 жыл бұрын
Lol I died when you guys were trying to figure out Schenectady, being from upstate New York. Loved this vid!
@kennethohnemus31922 жыл бұрын
You should look up the names of some of the cities in Washington state LOL. Lots of native american names. For example I live in Yakima Washington. Just south of us Toppenish and Wapato
@rivendells_shona2 жыл бұрын
Sequim, Tulalip, Puyallup. All those fun Salish names. 😉
@MrDcwithrow2 жыл бұрын
The Natives of the Pacific Northwest take the cake for place names in the US. Puyallup, Sequim, Hoquiam, Yakima, Wenatchee, Tulalip, Palouse, Methow.
@deepermind48842 жыл бұрын
Millie's deadpan provided one of the funniest moments I've ever seen from a KZbin creator 00:28 🤣 😂 😆
@DoomSlayer302 жыл бұрын
I am from the U.S. and I like your guys reaction on these videos
@socket_error10002 жыл бұрын
So many Native American names throw not just foreigners for a lupe but a lot of Americans from other parts of the country as well. Living in the Pacific Northwest I grew up hearing and saying all the place names of cities, counties, rivers, and other geographical features that feature Native American names. Hearing someone try to pronounce some of them is particularly amusing. The name of the city on the banks of the river of the same name, Puyallup, Washington is always amusing. Just a few days ago I got a laugh out of a narrator in a video being screened here mispronouncing the name of Whatcom County when talking about the location of Point Roberts. The midwest has a lot of similar Native American place names that even give us Northwesterners issues.
@weknow.23042 жыл бұрын
It's hilarious how Millie made me subscribe by brute force. I don't know any other channel where this would have worked but she's so lovable and scary at the same time lol. James, your epic. Don't ruin your relationship b/c it's wonderfully complimentary! Upstate NYer who loves everything you do so don't stop; your friend Paul!
@Unchained742 жыл бұрын
I'm from New Orleans. A very small portion of the locals say nawlins. Most out of towners actually pronounce it with a proper tone, with emphasize on orLEANS. Truthfully though, I was born and raised there, and either way is accepted. There are many different ways you can say it. New Orleans folk mostly want out of towners to come and have a great time. The way the name is said, really doesn't matter.
@shelleytorok14062 жыл бұрын
Uruguay = Err-ah-gway Chilé = Chi-LAY And YES please do more of these!!
@glowormrdr61832 жыл бұрын
Uh, no. Why would a "Ur" be pronounced as "Er"? It's Oo-roo-gwahy. And Chee-lay.
@Artist61352 жыл бұрын
I love it! “FREE” = Three (Tha-ree) 😂❤️ I love this channel!
@patriciaanderson85562 жыл бұрын
When looking at American place names you ALWAYS have to remember-- at least half of them are based on native names. The spellings are based roughly on phonetic spellings by semi-literate explorers who wrote what they heard, but they were NOT linguists. Then there is the shift that happens over the past 100 years or more. You guys do pretty good. I can't figure out how you come up with some of the pronunciations of English place names. To me, I just see someone who was paid by the letters to create the names for a map and ignored the actual pronunciation when they wrote them down.
@C.O.G.2 жыл бұрын
Patricia Anderson, so true. For example, "Tennessee" comes from the Cherokee word "Tanassee".
@sherryford6672 жыл бұрын
Oooh, so cynical. I love it. 😉
@soccertl2 жыл бұрын
Louisville is actually pronounced different ways depending on which state city he is talking about. Louisville exists as a city in different states and each state pronounces it differently. All the names the "Lost in the Pond" guys said for it are correct depending on where you are.
@Nate9-92 жыл бұрын
Being from the US, most of these are dependent on our personal accents. I have never heard of Louisville said anything other than "Loo-eee-ville." If the locals want it pronounced a different way. That's on them. I live in a neighborhood with a name that I have heard pronounced literally more than 5 different ways. I don't care if anyone says it wrong.
@HBC4232 жыл бұрын
In the south we'd say Lou-vul
@swissuz2 жыл бұрын
@@HBC423 I'm in the Southwest and for 60 years of my life I've only known it as "loo-ee-ville". That is what's frustrating about these types of topics, even locals in their own cities get a lot of them wrong.
@Fool3SufferingFools2 жыл бұрын
Locals sometimes have their own pronunciations just so they can point and laugh at outsiders.
@HBC4232 жыл бұрын
@@swissuz cuz you ain't from round here... but I would say Lou-E-Vil slugger... but if I was talkin bout the town, we'd say, Lou-vul
@martinhafner22012 жыл бұрын
What? No La Jolla, Nojoqui Falls, Lompoc, Ojai, Owyhee and Port Hueneme?
@jacobhoward93052 жыл бұрын
I love you guys love from Arkansas woo pig call them hogs for me ❤️
@xemnas90982 жыл бұрын
Pine Bluff.
@duaneschultz92302 жыл бұрын
One thing that you have to remember about America is that we are made up of so many nationalities all mixed together. That a lot of words are regionally pronounce different. Such as Pa toe mac or pat o Mac for Potomac. The Appalachian mountains and area are pronounced many different ways in the United States. It can be pronounced one way in the Midwest and totally differently in the south. A lot of things differ greatly from the north and the south in the United States in the way people say things. And as things move from east to west pronunciations vary greatly. I really enjoyed your video. God bless you and your family. Duane
@ephennell4ever2 жыл бұрын
Wow! Millie just does _not_ accept "pah-TOE-m'ck" ... a little tip Millie, if you don't like strangers staring at you, don't visit the Potomac region. Despite many people insisting that Americans are rude and obnoxious, if you show up with an odd pronunciation of a place-name, many of us won't bother correcting you if you're obviously an overseas visitor - we'll just chalk it up to "well, you can't necessarily expect somebody from ______ to get every word right, all the time!" But many of us will stare at you, some hoping you'll get the clue and ask "so, what's wrong?" P.S. - in Spanish "Chile" is pronounced "CHEE-lay"; trust somebody with a few years of Español under his belt, and who has spent a fair amount of time with Spanish-speakers, discussing geography. The amazing thing to me is the number of people that I've run across who literally can't seem to _hear_ the difference between "CHEE-lay" and "chilly"! I can't believe the number of times I've had this conversation: Them: It's "CHILL-ee", of course. Me:. No; it's "CHEE-lay". Them: That's what I said, "CHILL-ee". Me: No; you said "CHILL-ee", when it's "CHEE-lay"! Them: [with a puzzled look] But you just said it twice, the same way! Me: You can't hear any difference between "CHILL-lee" and "CHEE-lay"?!? Them: You're just repeating yourself ... without any difference. Why? It almost feels like I'm doing the "Who's On First" routine from Abbot & Costello, except it's way more annoying!
@jimmiegiboney24732 жыл бұрын
2.8K Thumbs Up + Mine! 👍. Well, yes, there are debates, even here, about the pronunciation of not just place names, but so many other words. It would take too many words to explain why, in a post here. So let me just thank you for the information and the fun! Thanks for sharing the digital video recording! 🎬😎🖖✌️👍
@HouTexHemi2 жыл бұрын
Millie gets every word wrong and then claims victory. Love it!
@cassiecaradoc20702 жыл бұрын
So, the secret is, the pronunciation changes depending on which part of the country (or even state) you grew up.
@shrekthenoob2 жыл бұрын
I love ya guys and enjoy your reaction videos, but you can't complain "that's not how its written" about Louisville when you guys have Leicester and just ignore half the letters in it. Fair is fair, we can ignore letters in Louisville.
@lalida64322 жыл бұрын
“O-kay, I think you’re wrong” Ha, ha!
@benx22302 жыл бұрын
Millie correctly pronounced Potomac. 'Appalachia' varies with regional accents. In the North East, at least in New England, it is ap-ah-LAY-sha.
@NarwahlGaming2 жыл бұрын
You two repeating Schenectady sounded like space aliens trying to figure out human guttural sounds. 😂
@SilverBeardGuerilla2 жыл бұрын
Here in Pennsylvania you mostly hear Ap-pa-lay-sha , unless you happen to live in the mountains where we use the region name instead , where I'm at we just say Laurel Highlands , other areas we call by region are the Tuscarora's and Poconos
@Code92 жыл бұрын
During WWII, my former father-in-law, Ken, (an American) spent some time in a British army camp. One day, during a conversation with a British officer, Ken said something about the training schedule for the day. He pronounced the word with the hard "c" (like a "k") as Americans do. The British officer said, "You mean schedule." He pronounced it like "shed", the way the British do. This was apparently the 3rd or 4th time he'd been corrected by other Brits and he was becoming a bit annoyed about it. So he replied, "Well, excuse me. I haven't had much Shooling". Fortunately, the British officer had a sense of humor so Ken got away with being a smart-ass to an officer.
@danielpolk98082 жыл бұрын
Dwight Eisenhower also ran into that, and would credit it to some "sheme in my shooling"
@joannerobinson43602 жыл бұрын
That was so funny! I live in North Carolina and listening to you both I couldn't pronounce the names. I laughed and laughed since I couldn't tell what was right or wrong. I was born in Charlotte, North Carolina but moved to Jefferson, North Carolina in 2020. You should know that I knew how to pronounce each one correctly; just got into what you were saying. I love your channel! Oh, by the way, I didn't type "y'all" instead of 'you both". That's just a Southern way of saying You All! I say it all the time.
@clinthowe76292 жыл бұрын
i really like Lawrence, he’s such a gentleman, never has anything impolite to say, though we probably deserve it at times.
@jsstars12 жыл бұрын
Millie would blend right in, James would stand out.
@ercokatty2 жыл бұрын
I was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and lived in the area most of my life. We pronounce all the towns mentioned at the beginning exactly as the Brits do.
@ginalong60122 жыл бұрын
As an American, I have visited so many places here and everyone pronounces stuff differently. I've learned that if you know what they're saying or talking about, just go with it.
@johnakers36262 жыл бұрын
I live in West Virginia, which is located within the Appalachian region.. I love to watch your channel, keep up the good work.
@DFDamer712 жыл бұрын
As an American, I also said woah when Schenectady popped up, and also guessed the same pronunciation that you guys did
@baskervillebee60972 жыл бұрын
I used to have Gloucester Canaries. A guy once called and asked if I had any clusters for sale. 🥴
@NikkiRox2472 жыл бұрын
Appalachian here. The further north of the range it gets, the more we say app-a-lay-sha. You should try Allegheny, Monongahela, and Youghioheny next.
@NorthernWolf9102 жыл бұрын
You guys should find a quiz online about place names and their pronunciations for the U.S State of Michigan. I think you guys would get a kick out of it. For example: Muskegon, Cheboygan, Mackinac Island, Sault Ste. Marie, Charlevoix.
@InMediasRes_vo2 жыл бұрын
Can confirm from northern Appalachia we use the 'LATCH' variant. If you do run into someone who uses the 'LAY' variant they are also likely to say your name incorrectly on purpose if it isn't common, going as far as saying back to you wrong several times before giving up dramatically, so make of that what you will.
@michellesartain88012 жыл бұрын
Love your all’s videos..hi from Southern Cali🙌🏻🙌🏻😍