We tried (again) to Pronounce these Florida Town Names

[@adiburgos4454]

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

[@kitcorpse]

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 😂

[@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

[@defentlynothere]

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. 😂

[@defentlynothere]

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

[@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...

[@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

[@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..

[@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.

[@cordelianoelle]

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?

[@cordelianoelle]

@@anne-marieshaffer6241 Too many outsiders.

[@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

[@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.

[@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?

[@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

[@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?

[@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

[@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...

[@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

[@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.

[@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!

[@anyah_g]

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

[@Drewaparsons]

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

[@malk67]

Outside of a "Florida Man" story.

[@angelfain8040]

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

[@footballmania1006]

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

[@KellyKristina85]

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

[@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

[@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!).

[@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.

[@Mimi-sf5sq]

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

[@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.

[@tahimi3801]

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

[@sallyphillips9175]

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

[@shelikes2read207]

y'all missed Kissimmee!

[@proudunitedstatesmarine280]

They did that one in the first video

[@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.

[@caitlinkerr8405]

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

[@flamingpieherman9822]

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

[@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

[@jeremysswiggs4405]

My little brother lost his fishing pole in Lake Okeechobee.

[@brianb8060]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@ndnpassfer78]

Wewa is what we call Wewahitchka here in Gulf County, FL.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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😅

[@llanorick]

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

[@baconcentral6258]

Was kinda hoping to see Clewiston on there

[@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.

[@emcovebe478]

I love It's a Southern Thing, even though I'm not from the South. Heck, I'm not even from the US. I'm from northern Europe, The Netherlands. But I do live in a provence called South-Holland.... does that count? ; )

[@jammersbeautyaj2731]

Dat is ietsje anders, LOL Een Southerner vanuit het V.S. lijkt meer op een verschill tussen Noord Brabant en Noord Holland, maar niet alleen van uitspraak maar ook het milieu en geschedenis. I've explained Holland vs Netherlands to Americans and the provinces of Noord and Zuid Holland, which are a bit like North and South Carolina but with far more people per square mile. Ik ken ZH. ;)

[@emcovebe478]

@@jammersbeautyaj2731 ja dat snap ik ook wel! Het was een grapje!

[@LeosHouse]

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

[@heathercutler5114]

Same here!🤭

[@LeosHouse]

Heather Cutler 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

[@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

[@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

[@bwpeterson2780]

Love this series on my favorite channel

[@kristianmir9783]

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

[@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.

[@emilygodwin4480]

I knew Okeechobee from Disney Channel!

[@Krissy331]

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

[@izzyb9098]

So funny 😂! You guys should do Pennsylvania

[@g67785]

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

[@Zigarius1123]

Yankees

[@elizabethtorres3491]

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

[@CavTanker88]

Bless your hearts. You tried your best!

[@TheShockaholic]

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

[@AwesomeChickk101]

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

[@proudunitedstatesmarine280]

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

[@Drummerboy_marc]

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

[@hmozachsown]

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

[@karenjones8128]

Yay,Calli's back.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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. 😂

[@carolinemorgan94]

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

[@TXTGAL101]

I love these series

[@npeace312]

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

[@MaineCoonMama18]

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

[@shortysn]

Exciting to see your hometown of Thonotosassa in a video.

[@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.

[@KarinaDoRego]

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

[@erikkoski6129]

True Floridian here and I didn't even know most of these lol

[@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

[@reaganpettis]

Happy Sunday everyone

[@actuallyitisrocketscience]

Well, actually, I live in the Eau Gallie area and the pronunciation depends on who you’re talking to. Old timers from back before it became part of Melbourne call it Oh Golly, like oh golly, gee whiz.

[@Rotokyo]

This is gon' be good

[@NickCorvello]

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

[@WildFloridian]

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

[@MrsAlmaTrumble]

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

[@huffyhuffy4305]

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

[@BlindingDarkness1111]

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

[@julieenslow5915]

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

[@nicolemorgan2167]

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

[@Kenna_Mc]

My family is from Sopchoppy 😂😂

[@michaeltaylors2456]

What about Immoklee?

[@krispykrunch5154]

Where my Miccosukkee people out here?

[@lorawaye]

I love these Native American town names!

[@jimallegood2974]

Us Floridians have to name our places to make everybody else sound uneducated. You want to call us 'Floriduh', we'll spit out a few town names and you'll think we've cussed you in a different language.

[@brianb8060]

Good and simple Florida names. Two egg Yeehaw Junction Jupiter Farms (my hometown)

[@TruckEnthusiastYT]

You’re day off from a year! That video was published on Feb 17!