We Tried (again) to Pronounce these Texas Towns

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

[@shannonp7911]

Loved the comment "The mispronunciations are bigger in TEXAS" LOL!!! I am a born and raised Texan, and I can't pronounce most of those towns either!!

[@skidmark9863]

Same I love in Dallas and barely know some of the cities around it.

[@hardwirecars]

same here the only ones i get are the ones ive heard during weather reports.

[@henryjw15]

Shannon P I just go by counties.

[@willreynolds7827]

the trick is to cram em together and not pronounce some of the letters. I was born and raised in Texas and still had trouble with some of those names lol. Galveston born but Houston raised, God bless Texas and God bless the south, ain't nowhere like it.

[@clayton3590]

same

[@lyamainu]

I love the slogan Buda has adopted: “Hard to say, easy to stay!”

[@DottyGale8]

lyamainu It’s named after the word for “beautiful.” So, all you have to do is remember “Beautiful Buda” (and, it is!).

[@roll-nblessed22]

Nope it’s named after the widow ladies who used to run the hotel/restaurant there in the old days. The Spanish name for widow is viuda which of you say it with a Texas accent ends up sounding like Byoo-da. So that’s where it comes from. 🤠

[@cerka27]

I’m from Houston. I’ve been to Buda. I was there for work for 3 days. There’s nothing to do.

[@musicmaniac32]

I thought it came from Budapest.

[@Angelina14799]

I guessed Buda because we have a Buna pronounced that way over here in this end of Texas. 🤭

[@justanotherbaptistjew5659]

1:18 Anyone who knows how to pronounce Jim Bowie, or Bowie Knife would know this. He fought at the Alamo.

[@thousandfootdeepend1278]

That's what I was thinking. 😂

[@mycupoverflows7811]

Yep! ❤️

[@mortalkombatkombosandtutor8018]

Bowie Knife, Bowie County, Bowie City

[@mortalkombatkombosandtutor8018]

@Sandman Huffmaster that's cool

[@griffincrump5077]

I know how to pronounce the town specifically because of their wrestling team

[@TeamMinajAustin]

Bless y’alls hearts. There’s still more Texas town names that even I as a native have a hard time pronouncing. 😂

[@madysonroberts1608]

Katie Walz same 😂😂

[@kwill6518]

Same, y'all!!😂😂😂

[@brenda.lizeth]

🤣

[@grgustafson3777]

@Paul Smith Good town! Lotsa friends from there. And with all that Eagle-Ford money, they be rich friends!

[@texas_badger1984]

God bless Texas

[@tori_shmori1541]

I know it’s not a city but hit em with Kuykendahl st. In Houston 😂

[@mycupoverflows7811]

😂😂👍👍

[@Sanchez77020]

Yassss!!!

[@1melannlit]

I live off that darn street. I can't spell it but I can say it!

[@camillegrow5716]

How about Fuqua in Houston haha

[@laurenmalinoski9116]

something about our houston street and city names nd then there’s just....*spring*

[@SurrealIsaiah]

So weird. I’m from Waco TX, and there’s a town called Bosqueville and street called Bosque Blvd with a Target I used to work at and we say it all the time and everyone pronounces it Boss-KEE. You ain’t changing my mind lol.

[@thiskidneedstobemoist1289]

i remember driving through waco and the gps said wacko

[@bgcofer]

I've been to Bosqueville (BOSS-kee-vill), not far from Waco, many times.

[@SurrealIsaiah]

bgcofer Yes!! Sorry, I think when I wrote “Boss-KEE” I was trying to empathize the KEE part lol. Yes, more emphasis on the Boss!!!

[@bengriffin9830]

I lived on Lasker for several years! I know Bosque Blvd. well :)

[@tristapennington9075]

I cringed so hard when y’all tried to pronounce Bowie 😂

[@edenarthur25]

ME TOO, AND IT WAS EVEN NAMED AFTER A PERSON

[@amandagrayson389]

If people mispronounce this, you know they are not from Texas or at least did not attend grade school in Texas. Hopefully, all the kids still learn about Jim Bowie and his knife. In Austin, we have Bowie High School

[@rocklesson86]

We have a Bowie High School in Austin.

[@deltaquadboi]

I feel you. I'm from Bowie, Maryland, which is pronounced the same way as the one in Texas.

[@mayjarsh6489]

SAME!

[@t.thompson8985]

Texan born, raised and still here. I grew up down the way from Uhland, Yoakum, Elgin, Buda, Bexar County--this was easy. Central Texas stand up!

[@nomadnametab]

two guys were going up the interstate to dallas once and they were coming up to mexia. they argued over what to call it. so they stopped at the dairy queen for lunch and figured they would ask a local how to say it. one said to the waitress; "could you please tell us,slowly and carefully, just where are we?" "sure! D A A A A A A A IRY QU E E E E E E E EN!"

[@janettamcgee8124]

If that story isn't the truth then it should be 'cos I love it. Dang, now I want a Blizzard.

[@AudaciousDani]

I am a born and bread Texan, and I get them wrong all the time. When it comes to Texas, if you aren’t from that area, you aren’t going to know how the smaller towns are pronounced. If you happen to stop in a local Buc-ee’s on your travels, don’t be afraid to ask the townsfolk~

[@AliciaPinATX]

Technically, Bosque is pronounced Bos-kee. Hope this helps.

[@somethingelseishere]

You are exactly right! I grew up right off a street named Bosque. That's how everybody said it.

[@bgcofer]

Yep!

[@farvista]

'S what I always thought, but I know you can get towns where folks don't all agree 100%. Sure wish they'd tried Nacogdoches, where I went to college. I grew up in the Midlothian/Cleburne/Waxahachie area. Nothin' too obscure there.

[@amandagrayson389]

I am a Texan, living in Texas. Y'all picked a few more of the 'obscure' ones-- I probably got half right. I did get Buda and Elgin 'cause that's near where I live. The challenge in Texas is that you had all these different people from different countries with different cultures and languages coming to Texas. (If you come to visit San Antonio, go to the Institute of Texan Cultures and you will see what I mean.) So you have English, Spanish and German (primarily) town names-- but you may also have others as well. And then you have English speaking folks who had never been exposed to any other language but English, trying to pronounce those Spanish and German town names-- sometimes with disastrous (or hilarious) results. This is why we have Salado (Sa-LAY-do) and Refugio (Refrurio)-- although how do we explain Pedernales (PER-de-na-les) or Manchaca (MAN-shack)? (This last one is reverting back to its original pronunciation of Man-CHA-ca.)

[@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever]

Don't forget the indian influence on the names also

[@frogbysachs7559]

Buda and Elgin near you? You must be an Austinite, or at least somewhere nearby!

[@amandagrayson389]

@@frogbysachs7559: Yes, I lived in Austin for 34 years. Now we live in Bastrop, so I am familiar with all the little towns. Also, I grew up in Houston and my father was a drug/chem rep so he travelled all over Texas and I heard a lot of town names growing up.

[@frogbysachs7559]

@@amandagrayson389 Ah. Good reasons!

[@ronlackey2689]

Don't forget the Czechs! God bless kolaches!

[@benac6645]

What a bout Beaumont Texas and Pflugerville, people miss pronounce those names but my favorite is manor but that was in the last video

[@laurenbond5958]

Ben Ac they need street names. I’d love to see them pronounce Kuykendahl 😂

[@mandyc3524]

Pflugerville has been one my absolute favorite Texas town names for as long as I can remember🤣

[@kaquinn8971]

Pflugerville embraces its quirky spelling. Every year they have the Pflugerville Pfireworks Pfestival. I'm not kidding.

[@zoedanforth7932]

@@kaquinn8971 lol our stadiums name is "The Pfield"

[@qqq1q1qqqqqqq]

@@laurenbond5958 Kir-kin-dial ☑️✔️✅ Check please! 😂😂

[@Zara-Bari]

Today I learned that I've heard more of these pronounced than seen them spelled. I kept seeing the name and being like "Man, I dunno what that is." Then when they'd get it right, I was like "Huh, I never knew that's how it was spelled, but yeah I've heard of that." But hey, I've lived my whole life in a Texas town that didn't even appear on a map for the first half of my life, so what do I know? :P

[@tracywallace30]

Pflugerville should have been in this that town is spelled very weirdly

[@edenarthur25]

*"IT SOUNDS LIKE A LORD OF THE RINGS CHARACTER"*

[@robylove9190]

Okay, I love, love, love the T-SHIRT. That was exactly how I felt when I lived in Alabama. Now I am back in Texas.

[@daltonowens95]

Watching this from the BBQ Capitol, Lockhart Texas.

[@skidmark9863]

I’m watching from SW Dallas/GrandPrairie

[@roll-nblessed22]

Jealous- love Chisholm Trail. 🤤

[@1melannlit]

Tomball, Tejas

[@frogbysachs7559]

And I’m in Austin :)

[@locknload4691]

@@frogbysachs7559 You used the wrong emoji to profess your despair...j/k

[@Jacksons2000]

I live in Texas and we've been through Buda plenty of times

[@martinelliotedwards1883]

Correction Texas has the best BBQ.

[@anonymousbub3410]

Oh goodness! Y’all pronounce them better than I would!

[@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever]

I'm a native Texan and I got a 100%, probably because I paid attention in our mandatory Texas history class. Now try Waxahachie, TX!

[@foechicken8023rileylastname]

They did in their first one about Texas. Lol.

[@vanessapecina1413]

I like your profile pic😎😉

[@gfrazier4569]

Waxahachie*

[@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever]

@@gfrazier4569 I don't know where that extra 't' came from - thanks

[@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever]

@@vanessapecina1413 go Cowboys!

[@karliegonzales6196]

I’m a Texan and I had no clue what these towns were called 😂

[@joshuaalphonse3747]

Same

[@ihatedmyoldnamesoheresanew7204]

me tooo

[@armaniganevia892]

Same 😭

[@rachelc2945]

Only got two right! These are hilarious!

[@ssgwright7419]

YEEE HAAAWWWW!!! 🤣😂 Blessings From Texas 🤠

[@genaroaguirre7309]

I live in Bexar county and I remember as a kid, someone once told me that the county gots its name because Mr. Bear would sign his name with just an “X.” So when he made the land purchase, he signed “X” and the sellers corrected it to “BeXar,” thus Bexar county gots its name. 😂😂😂

[@Tillie11351]

I heard that story too. Actually name comes from a Spanish dukedom Bejar. The dukes 2nd son was the vicroy of the Presidio San Antonio.

[@0naught236]

Genaro Aguirre X is H sound in old Spanish like J is

[@georgederocher8202]

San Antonio de Bejar. (BEh-har) was the original name of the city. Bexar is now the county in which it sits, although it used to be much larger . became Bexar San Antonio is

[@drummindan1133]

Don't Mess with Texas

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Part 2! That's the spirit, go big or go home

[@connerdale4221]

I see you everywhere

[@peacefrog5779]

I've lived in Abilene Texas my whole life and there's alot I couldn't even begin to try 🙃

[@richellesmitley9107]

TX has influences in it from different cultures. We have the Mexican Hispanic culture for some of the pronunciation of the towns cities, and we also have a German for a lot of the towns and cities that are also name. Then all of a sudden you have a German-Spanish town pronunciation where it’s a little of both. But I can say that being born and raised in TX it depends on what part of TX your from bc that’ll determine how you say it. Ex. People in San Antonio pronounce Buda like Buddha

[@Campo_]

I live in Caldwell county, and I ain't never heard someone say Ooh-land; I've always pronounced it you-land!

[@PolyBiBadger]

Yay my town was mentioned at 1:48, I feel so happy! 😆 I can’t wait to see the next video y’all post

[@KimberlyGreen]

Can I just say, damn that color looks great on Elisha! Very flattering.

[@nathangalbraith3372]

I live in Bowie, it irritates everyone who lives here when people come through saying it wrong 😂😂

[@stacyrice814]

I was born and mostly grew up in & around Bowie, still have tons of relatives there. First time I pronounced the musician David Bowie's name, I was quickly corrected. Told them that poor man was mispronouncing his name!

[@havenlewis6607]

I live in San Antonio and bexar is a county inside San Antonio not a town or anything

[@TJusnow]

San Antonio is inside the county.

[@havenlewis6607]

TJusnow San Antonio is the city that bexar is a county in

[@thestumaji656]

its pronounced bear county and thats where the indian who couldnt write put his mark an X between the E and the A !

[@zoedanforth7932]

San Antonio is a city in Bexar county not the other way around.

[@gregorymoore2877]

San Antonio is the seat of Bexar County. Sometimes, the bigger cities exist in multiple counties. For instance, Houston, where I live, extends beyond Harris County into a small portion of Montgomery County.

[@m2wild]

I always find it humorous whenever I a non-native Texan tries to spell Pflugerville by just the way it sounds. 😂

[@jonhester7517]

Part 3, y’all need to try Quitaque!

[@somethingelseishere]

I've always thought it was pronounced kwih-TAH-kee, thinking it was a Comanche word but then when I went to Caprock Canyons the locals insisted it was pronounced Kitty-Kway. Well I'll be damned, haha.

[@locknload4691]

I couldn't even begin to count the number times I've sped through that town to/from my home town located in North Central TX. Quitaque was located on the fastest route from my hometown to my duty station located West of Clovis, NM.

[@ameliam5275]

THANK YOU FOR DOING KY!!! Also y’all are the best!!

[@lichoness]

Ya thinkin’ cap! So southern

[@marj329]

I’m born and raised in Texas and there are some towns I have never even heard of.

[@donavanjohnson409]

Watching this from Beaumont Texas

[@sexychris]

Now we need part 3

[@raymundogarcia11]

Can we get a part three...we are feeling lonely here in lubbock

[@rebekahwalton1321]

I lived in Elgin, Tx for 3 years but, I wasn't aware it was hard for people to pronounce. But, our GPS always mispronounced the name.

[@frogbysachs7559]

I pass by Elgin every week! I don’t live there myself, but it is hard for me to understand why it’s so difficult for some.

[@wyldsmith7926]

"Y'all just got silly with it" 😂

[@kk_giirl]

So many times I “LOL” y’all are funny ah

[@welcome3513]

Please do a part 3 😂😂

[@katherinekellmeyer5428]

I didn't know most of these. So far, I've gotten 1: Bosque. I could tell from the spelling (in Spanish, it means either "woods" or "forest") technically two, since Elgin is pronounced like one might expect, but I wasn't trying to guess that one.

[@kevinhlavenka7191]

Sad thing is, they said it wrong. It's actually pronounced Bos-key. And it's a river and a county, not a town.

[@lisafarrell1606]

Im from twxas and live by Bowie and it was so funny listing to them say nanes that are normal to me

[@ringmasterraven2965]

I am Texan and can verify even we can't pronounce our own shit 😂😂😂

[@YouTubePremiumforRealz]

They don't even know how to pronounce Bowie? Looks like they've lost heir southern card.

[@cathuff5802]

2:44 I was waiting for y’all to mention that one haha

[@ShadowFox10587O]

I lived in Texas all the way up through high school and I didn't know any of these lol although I can say from personal experience that Texas is huge and there's a lot of obscure small towns in the middle of nowhere

[@kristengorum6919]

I used to live in Buda and I was just laying there waiting for someone to get it right

[@Angelina14799]

They killed me in the previous episode with Nacogdoches (that one's near me). They need to take a crack at Colmesneil. 😁

[@FrankHorigan]

1:16 it’s like saying Bowie a Bowie knife

[@admirathoria0073]

Yay! Texans pronounce Bowie the correct way!

[@coltenhoehns3229]

Lol I would hope so!

[@rheamorales1329]

Arizona pronounces our Bowie the same way, and we have an Elgin too!

[@deltaquadboi]

Bowie, Maryland, is pronounced the same way

[@admirathoria0073]

Yes it is. I grew up about 20 miles from Bowie MD.

[@np6227]

Let's go Texas!!!

[@rickallmightyjones6189]

Talia is blushing 🥰🤣😂 Ohh 😯 Talia has a Tatt

[@Doglover-cc1or]

Y'all should do another one of these and do Decatur that would be fun for people to pronounce or Denton

[@teresahamby4092]

Us Texans may be weird but we are a fun weird.

[@cclemons3121]

Y'all should do this for every state.

[@grantsmith268]

if you do another texas episode, try wolfforth or quitaque !

[@USMC-Goforth]

This is an awesome series, from a Texan. Lol

[@treyboles3705]

Please do a whole series on just Texas towns. There are so many ones that people don’t know how to say. Ex: Tivoli, Cuero, Pflugerville, Bonham, Pearsall, etc

[@frogbysachs7559]

I don’t know all of these, but as a native Texan, I know FLOO-gur-vil and BON-um

[@Xianne027]

Oh come on! Y'all left out the best one of 'em all: Waxahachie! Try sayin' that right! 😂

[@frogbysachs7559]

They put that in the first one. Pretty sure they pronounced it wrong, too. Woxahachie? Never heard of that! Of course, I’m not a local and could easily be wrong.

[@ronlackey2689]

@@frogbysachs7559 That's correct. "Wock-suh-hachie"

[@Pandulse123]

I just drove through Uhland two weeks ago. I was floored that such a name for a town exists lol.

[@amberpeterson5027]

I used to live in Bexar. I loved telling people I lived there and then they would try and pronounce it 😂

[@RedT...TheOriginal.NotANumber]

Need to do Hawaii next. Lol. Still laughing about the GPS's pronunciation of "Kapiolani".

[@jezikerr3720]

I've actually been to Elgin as I don't live more than an hour away. My dad lives in Bastrop and si we gotta drive through Elgin to get there. And Manor from the last video is around the same area.

[@austina4189]

RIP when I live in Elgin, SC and it's said with a hard G

[@amandagrayson389]

And a soft G in Illinois.

[@austina4189]

@@amandagrayson389 oops I meant soft G. Like Eljin

[@missipenix]

I pass Buda every month or two when visiting family (I live in San Antonio, visiting north of Austin), and Buda's when we know it's time to jump on the pickle parkway lmao

[@mandyc3524]

Melissa Young PICKLE PARKWAY!!

[@avarichardson1741]

Y'all should do Louisiana town names!

[@benney52]

I live in manor (from the last episode) but I've gone to an Elgin school all my life so I've known those two all my life, but why cant anyone tell me why Pflugerville is not on here

[@kwill6518]

That's all I wanna know! I'm from Taylor and for sure Pflugerville is one of the harder town/city names in the state.

[@mattmcbrayer2687]

That hat looks great on her! She looks like a certified Texan!

[@dosesofjenni]

I’m still waiting for a Louisiana one

[@jackielinde7568]

Bah! Skip these softball states. Let's see them do southwestern states, like Arizona, New Mexico and Navada.

[@faiththomas1749]

Jack Linde Do California y'all would have. Field day

[@Teresia12]

They have.

[@SirMoeThe2nd]

They did do one. Check it out!

[@jackielinde7568]

​@@faiththomas1749 1. I live next door to Cali and have been to Cali. Meh! 2. I'm not on the staff, so I'm not part of that "Ya'll" bit. Closest I can claim is that my Dad was stationed at Little Rock AFB for a few years, so I got to "enjoy Arkansas" for a bit. (I did have a nightmare that my almost college aged daughter decided she wanted to go to University of Arkansas and become a Razorback. As someone who went to Arizona State, University of Arizona would have been preferable.)

[@dawnnabours3774]

Arkansas has some pretty crazy town names too!!

[@TheCalvinator07]

I'm a year late, but I live 5 minutes from Uhland it is actually pronounced Yoo-land not ooh-land.

[@isaacbright3490]

I thought Bosque was pronounced boss-key just cause theres a long significant road called that in Waco. I figured it was the same pronounciation but I guess not.

[@llama4917]

Omg when they tried to pronounce "Bosque" XD

[@ronlackey2689]

And they never got it right!

[@kendrastevens5452]

I double dawg dare ya'll to try street names in Palm Springs, CA.

[@Vegoonery]

I was waiting for them to try pronouncing Refugio.

[@amandagrayson389]

I think Refugio was in the first video of Texas town names.

[@Vegoonery]

@@amandagrayson389 Whoops, I missed that video!

[@EddyGurge]

New dude is awesome!

[@toripino5148]

I live in Buda, and this made me laugh so hard cause everyone always messes up the pronunciation

[@lianagrace6518]

y’all are good lmao i’m a texan !!

[@kevinfilbin7688]

Because you have a combination of French Cajun in the east, German in the central hill country, and Spanish everywhere, and don't forget the native American influence

[@heyitsaveryrose740]

Born and raised Right in the heart of Texas (San Angelo)

[@kaivickers166]

So I live in West Texas where there’s No Trees, Pinwheel, Kermit, and lost of other amazingly bad names.

[@mandyc3524]

Kai Vickers my fave from my time at TTU is muleshoe, tx

[@henryjw15]

Kai Vickers I love the ones that are named after civil war union officers.

[@kaivickers166]

henryjw15 - yeah, Robert E Lee is about two hours away, not to mention the local Robert E Lee High. /sigh

[@henryjw15]

Kai Vickers not to mention Stanton right next to midland, I blame the Germans for that one.

[@RusTsea196T]

I think you meant "Penwell"- though it's not much bigger than a pinwheel.

[@lizphoenix1826]

I live in Bexar county of San Antonio Tex, but even I couldn't say all the names right lol. I've lived here all my life smh lol.

[@hillbillydelux]

Elgin's my home town! Its next door to manor from the last video and about 35 mins from buda.

[@maggieobersat3861]

Hey! I live near Elgin!!!!!!! Super big fan btw

[@QueenGeek13]

The bosque got to me... I'm a Texan and I was looking at it and just repeating BosQUE... Its cause of all the Mexican influences on Texas towns so its kay

[@64wbryantex]

That a problem we have here Spanish German French Irish/Scott influences make for some frustrating pronounceation skeems.

[@somethingelseishere]

I grew up right off a street named Bosque and everybody I ever knew pronounced it BOSskee.

[@bgcofer]

Quitaque, Texas. Pronounce that.

[@aggiesrecruitingexpert]

In the Houston area everything is easy. It's when you get west a couple hours where it gets difficult. However, usually the people I travel with don't know I'm saying it wrong :)

[@gamingnerdgirlz]

02:40 "i know its not" suddenly gets it. XD

[@kinleymarek6678]

I live super close to Bowie!

[@kurtsutton1384]

Do some more Texas towns!!!

[@GarrettTheViking]

Alright. You've done Texas twice now. We need a Louisiana town names video, and New Orleans street names don't count. Louisiana and Arkansas (at least I don't remember an Arkansas video) are the only Southern states you haven't covered.

[@hardwirecars]

yall dont count yalls stuff is french man... how us southerners supposed to know how to pronounce french?

[@christopheredale]

We need a third Texas video!! Like if agree

[@chaytonmathews6886]

I’d love to see them try and pronounce my hometown of Niederwald, Texas

[@weirdgirl7475]

Shoot, I'm born and raised in Texas and I've never even heard of some of these towns! Like Pyote or Byuda

[@frogbysachs7559]

Buda is in Central Texas, not so far from Austin. Where do you live? :)