We Try to Pronounce Texas Town Names

[@ameenahsf]

How did the San Antonio lady mess up Nacogdoches!? Its even the name of a regularly used street and exit on 410. You ain't never exited on nacogdoches lady!?!?! I'm side eyeing her something fierce right now

[@bre124]

I know! I was so confused, she must be from the south side

[@txaggievet]

How did she mess up Gruene ... its just north of San Antonio... no doubt she has been there

[@iankelty7080]

And not knowing Gruene which is down the street from New Braunfels

[@Jprager]

Miss Mena I was literally just about to comment that, we’ve got streets named after some of these towns 😂 and she still butchered them

[@hellokittyangel211]

My only guess is that it’s probably one of those things where she so used to hearing and not ever being asked to spell it that seeing it spelled out just kind of threw her and I’m saying this as some from a state that also has VERY weird place names. For example, even though I wasn’t born in the state I currently reside in, it has been home to my permanent address since about 3 weeks before my 1st birthday almost 30 years which means I felt I have mastered or at the very least learned the phonic and linguistic logic behind the naming process, so that I couldn’t be TOO tripped up when I discovered some place I’ve never heard of. Therefore, you can imagine my shock when I learned that these three different places in my state known as Reading, North Reading, and Readville are NOT all pronounced the same way even though logic would dictate all three these places would be pronounced the same way. However, only two out the three of them are and to make matters even more confusing the 2 places with the same pronunciation aren’t even done in the default way you would assume.

[@Captain_Pink]

As a Texan, I started singing the second I saw Luckenbach. "Let's go to Lukenbach Teexass, Willie n Waylon and the booys.... This successful life we're livin got us feudin like the Hatfields and McCoys..."

[@kamrynjackson1644]

Thank the Lord I was not the only one 😂

[@directorMASC]

Yes this! I was singing it too!

[@uts4448]

Yessss! That’s where I recognized it from. I was trying to remember where I heard it from.

[@TexasLadyS]

Me too!

[@garrybowers9998]

Yay, now I don't feel weird singing it in my head.

[@tsteeleosuou]

If you can't pronounce Luckenbach you never hung out with Waylon and Willie and the boys

[@relayniedarcy]

Good times...

[@hellopeople4264]

Forget pronunciation. They even spelled it wrong in the video.

[@rivka954]

Exactly!!! I knew how to pronounce it before I even moved here from the Arizona mountains 25 years ago...of course my daddy was born and raised in a little town outside Paris during the Depression so I grew up with biscuits and gravy, greens, chicken fried steak, chow chow, even vinegar pie, lol, so moving here was like coming home. Thank God for Texas!!!

[@amymaliga1674]

Tom Steele 😂😂 Exactly.

[@sandycarvelli7870]

That was my thought exactly

[@BaronVonMagpie]

Game was rigged from the start, our towns are named in five different languages and a bunch of them are wrong because somebody said it weird a hundred years ago and it stuck

[@DenverStarkey]

my home town (in texas) is named Shir after a japanese tree the foudners got out of a book. in japan the word is pronounced She-row , but the twon name is pronounced Shy-row.

[@definitelynotchadfish]

Yeah, this is what I was thinking. I moved to New Braunfels recently and I know some of this. But most of the pronunciations are just flat wrong compared to the language or origin or towns they were named after. Naming a town after an actual place that already exists and then proceeding to pronounce the town name incorrectly is just weird. You can’t really blame people for not knowing how to pronounce it.

[@ani4660]

That’s how Llano is lol

[@TheBlueDogMan]

Sort of like they do with the state Nevada.

[@gwenking7700]

​@ani4660 I so love the Llano river. It is beautiful. East Texan here born in Terrell which no one can pronounce correctly either.

[@JusticeBackstrom]

As a Texan, I failed more of these than I'd like to admit.

[@Motodoggo_]

Sadly me too

[@JusticeBackstrom]

@@Motodoggo_ Rest in Peace.

[@thecatladytm7172]

Ngl, I'd never even heard of some of those places

[@Motodoggo_]

@@thecatladytm7172 there are some weird ones too like I live not to far from a city called DIME BOX, TX

[@JusticeBackstrom]

@@thecatladytm7172 Same here.

[@novaquartz5049]

Problem is Texas land has been owned by the Germans, Spaniards, Natives, Mexico, and the French. Sooo many languages kinda make up our city names. Edit: Point is a lot of different cultures settled into Texas. We have a complicated history and even more complicated street/town/city names.

[@stevelavergne2852]

And they've all been mashed together to produce the odd pronunciations.

[@karoleigharmstrong8568]

And Chez.

[@captainjason1157]

Germany never owned any part of Texas. We had a large influx of German immigration in the late 1800's. They mostly settled in and around hill country.

[@bobina05]

@@captainjason1157 Schlitterbahn!

[@kennetth1389]

Don’t forget the Czechs

[@LapinAngelique00]

"We're Texans and we do what we want." That's it. That's the motto.

[@t.thompson8985]

At all times.

[@SheepdogSmokey]

That's the "official" motto, but "Don't F&&& with Texas" is the real one

[@bgcofer]

Ray Wiley Hubbard has a song- "We're From Texas. Screw you "

[@brendabernstein286]

Truth

[@lancer2029]

@@bgcofer The Irony is that Ray Wylie Hubbard is not a Texan. He is from Soper, Oklahoma.

[@chrisflores4788]

As a Spanish speaker, the pronunciations of Refugio and Palacios were hysterical 😂

[@danielrendon8555]

They are both mispronounced.

[@divinecomedian2]

Yeah they're butchered, but if you pronounce them correctly then people look at you funny. Also, San Antonio was mispronounced.

[@danielrendon8555]

@@divinecomedian2 Well as a Mexican American if I mispronounced something in English incorrectly they would belittle you but it's alright for them to mispronounced Spanish words because that's how they talk.

[@AnBarofSoap]

The local pronunciation of Bexar County bothers me. People look at your weird when you pronounce it in Spanish (Be-jar) or phonetically in English (Beks-ar). The "right" way to say it is "bear" county. WTF!

[@danielrendon8555]

@thebarofsoapIG Very true

[@tejaswoman]

Friend's mom was a Mexia native and told us this joke: Two men are driving into town, and as they pass the sign, they begin arguing over how the town's name is pronounced. They're hungry, so they decide to go settle the argument by asking the server at the drive-thru. After pulling up and placing their order, the driver asks the server, "Could you settle an argument for me and my friend about how this place is pronounced? Say it slowly, please." Young woman looks at them, bumfuzzled, then says patiently, "Daaaaaaairyyyy Queeeeeeeen."

[@charlottehall7785]

Lol used to work at the dairy Queen in groesbeck about 12 minutes away from mexia. I can guarantee this happens more than you think.

[@southsportsdude]

I’ve seen this joke somewhere before but it was Louisiana and it was Burger King

[@mongolordofdarkness]

I know it slightly different. Greyhound bus. 3 guys. 1 says Mex-ia. 1 says Mah-Hay-ah. 1 says Mah-hare.

[@tejaswoman]

@@charlottehall7785 - you've made me wish I knew where and if Phyllis Boone is living so I could tell her!

[@thecatladytm7172]

That is hilarious

[@masonjones4849]

"Pick a letter and don't pronounce it." Damn, she's a quick learner.

[@erincraddock1555]

Except for Refugio where you add a letter that's not there...

[@marim5882]

I’m a Texan an I laughed so hard at the Nacodogdches one😂 it’s a famous city in Texas.

[@kellylewis6060]

I was waitin' for it. I knew they made this video just got it. 😂😂😂

[@andrewbert5402]

I learned about that town a few months back in history class. I never could pronounce it right

[@mydork13714]

NACANOWHERE

[@joshuanicholas6178]

Nac is also acceptable

[@Chase0370]

I call it Nac lol live 40 minutes away. Oldest town in Texas

[@reddmutt1916]

If you travel from Nacogdoches, Texas to the Louisiana border, and travel the same amount of miles into Louisiana, you will arrive at Natchitoches, Louisiana. According to an old Native American story, A chic had two sons. He tool them to where the border is today separating Texas from Louisiana. He told me them to walk in the opposite direction direction from each other. The place each of them stopped at the end of a days walk were named Nacogdoches, in Texas, and Natchitoches, Louisiana.

[@fighterck6241]

I remember making that trip to go to Mardi Gras. Isn't it pronounced Na-co-tish?

[@johnanges818]

The chief was Chief Caddo (hence Caddo Lake on the TX/LA border). But I thought they each walked 3 days before stopping. Oh well, I graduated from SFASU in the early 1980's, so it has been many many many years since I last heard that story... 😉

[@John-dv7de]

Chief Caddo. He had twin sons.

[@xandyjay4891]

The “Texan” that didn’t know Nacogdoches needs to stop claiming us 🤨.

[@BuzzDoesDisney]

Xandy Jay I lived in OKC for six years and I knew that one right away!

[@xandyjay4891]

Cynthia Baker Bexar would have been perfect!! Waco is more we’ll know now because of the Gaines’s though. It’s not as funny to see people try anymore LOL!

[@BrokenWingsMusic]

Lol I'm from Nacogdoches and I dont see how people cant say it 😂

[@t.thompson8985]

She gotta give up her Texan card.

[@Lauren.Chapman]

rt

[@Ravenkm]

"We're Texans, and we do what we want." That we do XD

[@BigAl2-u7e]

Apart from seceding from the Union successfully.

[@OGWeezy]

Charlie Yang lasted longer than my parents marriage

[@fememoboy7601]

Explore more with Chris OOF THAT KID ON XBOX WAS RIGHT THEN

[@nicholecharo6480]

WhishiWhooshi technically we legally still have the right to secede if we want to, whereas other states dont

[@squirreltastic-k5v]

Except smoke pot lol

[@BOLANAREDE321]

Supercalifragilisticexpi Nacogdoches...

[@claddagh143]

😂😂😂

[@Devin3Anthologie]

Exactly! Did we go to the same school or something because I'm pert near positive we put those two together where I went to school 😂😂👏🏾

[@mrs.hammertime180]

Thoroughly unappreciated comment. :)

[@lifeisgoodinthesouth210]

Totally hilarious!! I think we must have grown up in the same town! 😂

[@BOLANAREDE321]

@Grey Cactus what are you talking about?

[@terryrogers7899]

I am from Llano Texas. We love to hear folks try to pronounce it.

[@HazelCotton]

My 7th grade Texas history teacher pronounced it Larno. I knew that wasn't right.

[@terryrogers7899]

@@HazelCotton too funny

[@wyldeman]

Lan o

[@HazelCotton]

There's a street around the corner from my house, Llano, where a mailbox is. Trying to explain that to an out-of-towner was a little tricky.

[@MegaTexan2010]

How does the woman who claims to be from San Antonio get Nacogdoches wrong? We learned about it in Texas history as the oldest town in Texas.

[@LifeinLithuania]

And Gruene! She must not get out much lol

[@totto79121]

Maybe she's a transplant.

[@DS-rt1ed]

THANK YOU! I thought the same thing...I think she's an impostor.

[@danielloftin6057]

And Greune. That's like a whole 2 feet from San Antonio

[@grantnelson2836]

True and we have a road called nacogdoches

[@numbernien]

Im suprised Pflugerville wasn't on this list.

[@benney52]

Me too I'm surprised Manor is on it

[@kmvstudios9072]

I’m gonna guess (FLOO-jurr-vill)

[@numbernien]

@@kmvstudios9072 nope! FLOO-gerr-vill

[@kmvstudios9072]

@@numbernien Well, I was at least close. Thanks for the knowledge :)

[@numbernien]

@@kmvstudios9072 You're Welcome!

[@LoriLikeBAMM18]

The one from San Antonio needs her Texan card revoked. Palestine Texan right here born and raised.

[@Messi-me2zy]

And she has no excuse cuz I live in San Antonio originally from lufkin TX and can pronounce all of them

[@DS-rt1ed]

IKR? How's she get Nacogdoches wrong? The oldest town in Texas...it's kinda a big deal. :)

[@Pumpkin3.14pi]

To be fair if you're a Texan you can pronounce these any way you want until someone correct you. You have that much freedom here.

[@mochabby93]

Lauren Newsom girl im saying!! Im from san antonio and im like ummm really lol

[@aroses4416]

My family is from Palestine

[@cindylehman4818]

Love to see you do this with Wisconsin. All the indigenous names. It's a mouth full.

[@user-fr6qn9xl9e]

You forgot What-a-burger AKA Water-burger.

[@akrobeau]

XDDD

[@perfidiousprophet]

THIS IS TRUE

[@iviebrooks7768]

accurate

[@abbee1385]

I was SHOOK when I learned it was What-a-burger at the age of like, ten.

[@lesliet.538]

I’m from OK and I say that sometimes 😂

[@kandianzinga]

She’s from San Antonio and didn’t get Gruene or Nacogdoches 🤔

[@OutlawCaliber13]

That was what I thought. lol

[@careyward8404]

Yep, that's was my first thought.

[@andymontetaco6730]

She’s a fake.

[@shaydy1]

Same here. I admit I hadn’t heard of some, but those two are fairly well known....

[@GFHO]

I also found that odd!

[@rach1042]

They be sounding like google maps trying pronounce our street names😂

[@DavidDrummondTX]

True that. Navigating "howston" street in downtown Ft. Worth

[@skysplash8]

Going down "Gas-tahn" street here in Dallas is fun XD

[@xxx_putin_has_a_flaccid_pe5374]

OMG FOR REAL

[@OutlawCaliber13]

I hate talkin to them machines to get somewhere, and it can't understand you.

[@thelmacummings425]

That right.

[@buffalobob2890]

On Iraan the guy does the classic quote from the Key & Peele substitute teacher skit: "A-Aron." Love it! 😂

[@probably_singing]

"We're from Texas, we do what we want." So true.

[@sparkleandfriends8127]

Texas greatness

[@walkingcorpse1224]

Idk, are we talking about the actual state or the people? Cus the people are highly enforced by Texas law and arrest too many people for stupid petty crimes. It's #3 I believe on the list.

[@savathunthejudge914]

@@_Meng_Lan your kind isn't welcome here

[@Tylerfreemanmusic]

@@savathunthejudge914 it's true tho, I love Texas but it's government doesn't give a shit about us

[@savathunthejudge914]

@@Tylerfreemanmusic our government does. we've drawn to conclusions. it's the senator and his people who don't care. our governor has done all he could. the best he can do now is wait til next governor election

[@jeremycotton7604]

Hey y'all who else lives in Texas like if you do

[@CocoUnicorn90]

Dallas

[@SheepdogSmokey]

Gruene Hall on a Friday night, beer in one hand, my lady on the dance "floor," great memories.

[@mexicangem1677]

Houston

[@SheepdogSmokey]

@@mexicangem1677 Ouch, the only city where traffic is worse than Dallas in morning rush hour.

[@colewarnock935]

Austin

[@ChlyDoris]

The funny thing is Gruene->Grüne in german, what actually means green

[@JJR93]

Boerne is named for Ludwig Börne and was probably originally pronounced the German way but people got tired of explaining the correct pronunciation to their Anglo neighbors and just said "y'all know what? We're from 'Bernie'....just call it 'Bernie' and let's go get a beer."

[@unicethey-them6014]

Speaking German is surprisingly helpful with these names

[@RandomnessGirl309]

Yeah a lot germans migrated here. That's how we got the name for the water park Schlitterbahn

[@RandomnessGirl309]

@Pope Mcgrope ?????????

[@RandomnessGirl309]

@Pope Mcgrope oh I've never been to central texas

[@MercuryReacts]

“That’s probably the most Texas town name ever” no sir, that would be Cut and Shoot.

[@patchoulicolt7093]

I'm a Texan, and I know every single one of these, and have been to many.

[@marim5882]

Patchouli Colt same

[@jasminegrover7585]

Same I live in Texas

[@jasminegrover7585]

Now have y'all been to daingerfeild

[@skrpanther4296]

Same

[@TheCoachMc]

I'm form Boerne and I floundered with some of the pan handle towns.

[@collegebro85]

As a Texan, I got almost all of these wrong because we all say them different depending on our regional accent (DFW represent!) My personal faves, although not cities, are Erath county and Schlitterbahn

[@Frankel-Grafix]

Same

[@LifeinLithuania]

Which ones do you pronounce differently? 🤔 I'm from DFW and I say all these the "correct" way...

[@collegebro85]

Elise Gray Waxahachie = Way-xahachie Boerne = Burn Nacadoches = Nacado-cheese Also pronounce Weatherford as Witherfurr’d and Austin as Awe-stun I do have a slight Texhoma accent though, which might add to it

[@lynnenriquez1909]

@@LifeinLithuania I just moved to Texas (DFW!!) from CA & besides y'alls crazy ass highway system , I went to San Antonio to visit family in Bexar (Bear, yes Bear not BeXar) county! Give me time and I will be Texan! Bless your hearts!!

[@mikefelty2625]

Fellow DFW resident, born and raised. I got a bunch wrong, but I knew when I clicked on the video that not only would Waxahachie be in here, but people would mess it up. 😁

[@ColeM40]

As a Texan, I loved when I could pronounce about 75% of these, but hated that I couldn't the other 25%. anyone else?

[@mandyc3524]

Cole Cieslewicz exactly!!!

[@hannahjishcomer1835]

Yep same!

[@connorhaley3645]

Yeah same

[@dylanegert5959]

I did too

[@natureandrandomstuff]

I'm Hispanic who learned English from TV and Radio. What can I say 🤷

[@Mikolt1911]

Born and raised in Amarillo Texas. Half the towns in this state are crazy sounding. Just look up counties, rivers and lakes!

[@divinecomedian2]

And everyone pronounces Amarillo wrong because they don't speak it as Spanish

[@faithy8756]

“someone’s putting the wrong em-pha-sus on the wrong sylla-ble” i died

[@Mymimemei]

Same!!

[@brendabernstein286]

Me too

[@kmbrooks96]

The blonde chic needs to hand back her Texas card. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@rockysquid1094]

Very much yes

[@bm-r1135]

Agreed!!

[@cynninyt8094]

I am born and raised here and I have never even heard of it. Leave her the f*** alone.

[@johnMorganBrewer]

Dragon Night you’ve never heard of Nacogdoches or Luckenbach??? Are you sure you’re from Texas?

[@cynninyt8094]

@@johnMorganBrewer yes I am. Believe me. I am from Austin and currently live in concan.

[@TheOfficialKarlaXC14]

GIRL IF YOUR FROM SAN ANTONIO HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW GRUENE???? Literally 40 mins away from Downtown

[@tgwife1964]

Or Boerne for that matter

[@audreydavidson9517]

Thank you!!! That's what I was saying!!

[@Shayranae]

Idk how she didn’t get Nacogdoches.

[@2cool4booty]

HONESTLY!!! i went to school in san marcos and worked in new braunfels and took the gruene exit ALL the time. it's literally so close to san antonio, i was shocked when she had no clue

[@TheDivinian]

JUST SPELL IT CORRECTLY

[@MrStinker4]

Fourth generation Nacogdoches native here - Loved this! I've heard my hometown's name mispronounced my whole life.

[@cindyr9250]

@@MrStinker4 You have a fantastic cookbook too

[@jakehancock-db9rq]

6th generation in Nac 🥱

[@cag19549]

I don't understand that. It's pronounced the way it looks.

[@lovesunshinegirl7681]

TEXAS REPRESENT!🤘🏻❤️🙏🏻🙌🏻🙋🏼‍♀️

[@erinmefford8041]

Love, SunshineGirl team Texan

[@jack-5699]

I'm a Texan and recognize some of these cities/towns, and Nacogdoches is infamous for people who grew up in Texas and learned about the Texan revolution when we seperated from Mexico.

[@howardbaxter2514]

I just remember it as the city with a similar name to another city in Louisiana that is ironically on the same latitude.

[@eyes_espresso4803]

And the university is named for the most famous military leader out of that war! Stephen F. Austin. We have a statue fountain of him on campus, we lovingly call him Surfin' Steve.

[@IzzyKawaiichi]

@@eyes_espresso4803 You say "most famous," but did he get the tallest standing statue of an American hero on I-45? Nope.

[@jakehancock-db9rq]

I’m from Nac and I had no idea that we were in so many Texas history books apparently hahaha

[@jakehancock-db9rq]

@@eyes_espresso4803 I am a Nac resident and I approve this message

[@feliciachambers8559]

Texan here. I don't know how you can mispronounce nacogdoches. 😂

[@yousephkarouni9540]

Houstonian and I got that one - Boerne and Palacios got me

[@crispycheerios453]

Louisiana place spelled the same way but pronounce Na-Co-Dish

[@africanmaan]

I've never actually read the name until this video

[@theresalynn7575]

Louisianian here and same😂 it’s Na-Co-Dish

[@genesisdynamics9]

Damn ijut ferner

[@anthonygomez667]

Born and raised Texan. No town name makes since. Born in New Braunfels. Biked to Gruene when I was a kid! Thanks for doing this. Real funny!!

[@kat2556]

Thank you for apologizing for that. The people of Texas appreciate that.

[@cannongaming816]

Just Kyleigh damn right

[@erinmefford8041]

Just Kyleigh lol yes we do

[@silverwheelspatriot1764]

Even Texans fight over how to pronounce a few cities. Born in Texas, reared in Texas, and still here.

[@theroidragedtrex7908]

Which-it-aw, or Which-Ee-tuh?

[@savathunthejudge914]

you should know us all by now...all of us are violent

[@ChocolateMilk..]

Boerne is definitly pronounced wrong.

[@STOCKHOLM07]

Well this video gets quite a few very wrong.

[@TheCraftyMagnolia]

Yeah, like Mexia. People there call it Meh Hay er. LOL And try Teague on for size.

[@stefchanel1723]

All these Southerners, and not a one of them recognized the name of a Waylon and Willie song when it was right in front of them! "Let's go to LUKE-en-bock, Texas!" With Waylon and Willie, and the boys....

[@SD40Fan_Jason]

Thank you! Maybe it's time we get back to the basics of love!

[@kipchak5694]

Like the Hatfield's and McCoy's

[@_AlejandroGonzalez_]

1:05 that is *NOT* how you pronounce Refugio

[@adiaz6018]

Refujioo is the correct pronunciation

[@harryzimmerman7991]

It depends on who pronouncing it, been there enough times, where I usually go down the road in Woodsboro, they don't even say the whole word, the E becomes silent "Gonna go over to R'FURIO!"

[@kysolakonos]

I was born and raised in Texas, my godmother is from Refugio, with how I always heard her entire family pronounce it growing up I thought it was spelled “Refirio”. So yeah it may not be correct but most Texans say something along the lines of “Ruh-fear-io” or “Ruh-fyur-io”

[@superdude1759]

@@adiaz6018 That's incorrect. The letter "O" is not pronounced like the double "O" as in scoop. It's pronounced like the "O" in "oh."

[@1987FX16]

Gun Barrel, TX is the most Texas sounding town i've been through.

[@TwistedOnyx369]

But.... what about "Cut and Shoot?"

[@lestermount3287]

@The Creole Empire when talking about strange names my favorite is New Dime Box.

[@mr.nonentity3906]

@@TwistedOnyx369 I was about to say lol, right off to the side of Conroe

[@nicholasbrown1978]

Ever heard of Cut N Shoot Texas?

[@bigtimfish01]

Yep.... Cut and shoot. Best name ever

[@maniacmagge2568]

Now I'm not mad because many people don't understand that Texas has a lot of German towns, and you have to say it in a mixed German and southern accent

[@theroadtocosplayandcomicco5840]

Great im part German what else am I

[@miguelhernandez5634]

Maniac Magge yeah my hometown is called Rosenberg and it means rosy hills or something like that in German but it’s a last name

[@OKay-lu8jq]

@@miguelhernandez5634 Rose Mountain, so yep!

[@madysonroberts1608]

Miguel Hernandez I live in Rosenberg too 😆😆

[@ernestsmith3581]

@@OKay-lu8jq must refer to the high bank of the Brazos - hills are hard to find there. :-)

[@RangerHouston]

Some of these "official" pronunciations are wrong lol *From South Texas

[@JP2GiannaT]

Refugio, right? That one bothered me too.

[@Rebeca-jr7rz]

@@JP2GiannaT yup

[@mandymoore82]

I thought the same thing. I'm originally from north Texas and Oklahoma. Moved to San Antonio four years ago.

[@spencermcbeth6624]

JP2GiannaT it is pronounced refurio

[@Johnny-mu9bs]

@@spencermcbeth6624 It is a spanish word. It is also used as a name of Mexican women. We know how to pronounce it correctly and it is not "Refurio". You guys put that extra "r" in there because you cannot pronounce the "g". It is Re-Foo-he-oh

[@DJvNastyTX]

That Key & Peele reference was GREAT😂😂😂 "Like A-a-ron"

[@sarahborders2348]

I've lived in DFW, Corpus Christi, Houston and Austin, so I got all of these correct! The rule seems to be that when you move to a new town in Texas, you've got some pronunciations to learn.

[@marty0063]

Yes, like Sachse when we moved up here. I had no clue as I was from central Texas and hadn’t been up this way much before we moved up here.

[@rob20760]

It depends on who your asking because if I said Palacios or Refugio that way I'd get hit on the head by every Tejano in my family.

[@thejokerjoker508]

Roberto Rodriguez right???!!!! It should just be the spanish way

[@dogez1937]

Lol yea. I'm from the south part of Texas so I naturally lean to the more Hispanic/Mexican way of pronunciation 💁‍♂️

[@rheamorales1329]

Refugio has two pronunciations, it just depends who your talking with. Kinda like guacamole, do you guac it or walk it?

[@karenmalay97]

I’ve never ever ever heard REFUGIO pronounced that way. (Native Texan here. )

[@hellopeople4264]

Ever watch the movie “We Were Soldiers”? The reporter got it right.

[@eldergeek6077]

I guess none of heard of the song about Luckenback. That's where "ain't nobody feeling no pain". ;)

[@JakeKoenig]

I've lived in Central Texas for 19 years and I didn't know half of these. It's a HUGE state. Some of these towns are 500 miles away.

[@brademerick9181]

Texas ,... It's like a a whole 'nother country .

[@randomcdude4430]

I went to Stephen F Austin which is not in Austin, but Nacogdoches. Our rival school was across the state line in Louisiana (pronounced LoozyAnna) in a town called Natchitoches (pronounced Nack-uh-dish). Then I graduated college and moved out of state and finally learned that phonics are a thing. Who knew that the letters of the alphabet actually corresponded to specific sounds?

[@calrex4513]

Hey I have a friend who who’s attending Stephen F Austin.

[@bishopj.3230]

Also went to SFA!

[@jakehancock-db9rq]

Y’all I’ve lived in Nac for my whole life so I bet I know someone who knows y’all’s friends (or I might even know em myself who knows)

[@katiegustafson6765]

😂😂😂

[@DenverStarkey]

@Joahh0123 i've lived in Texas since i was 10 (i'm 45 now) but i'm originally from Louisiana.

[@paulgarcia1147]

A lot of us Texans pronounce Palacios in different ways depending on where you are from in the state. I think it should be pronounced just like it sounds in Spanish.

[@mojoschmee9320]

It should be pronounced the way it's pronounced by the folks who live there.

[@ChevyBachelor]

51% Hispanic population, I agree…

[@hellopeople4264]

The pronunciation was heavily influenced by the Bohemian (German-Czech) population in the earlier days of the town.

[@TehButterflyEffect]

No. Everything should be pronounced in English. Mexico is the OTHER side of the border. 😊

[@inigomontoya4109]

To be fair a good chunk of our cities in this state are like that. Even the city natives pronounce many of the cities different. I've heard most of these cities they've listed pronounced many a different way even when i was in them

[@blackhatguy3263]

I’m from Iraan Ira was the rancher who founded the town and An was his wife

[@ralfie8801]

Fighting Willock Absolutely! I'm glad you put this out there for the world to see where the name came from.

[@spitfire57whaley35]

Cool

[@g.holland4862]

Fighting Willock I would have went with Ira-An. Just saying.

[@lostinsauce4515]

Oh that's makes sense. Funny I'm Texan and didn't know

[@IdratherbeinHobbiton]

"the more you knooow!" 🌠

[@patrickwalker8968]

As an East Texan I love how you guys added the East Texas cities in the mix!

[@berryb745]

Kinda weird, first time I’ve actually heard anyone not within 100 miles of Iraan actually ever say it correctly. Never thought it would be announced on YT. Good job for the people who made this list.

[@utube14773]

Only reason I know how to pronounce it correctly and I’m from DFW area. Is we drive through there on our way to the deer lease.

[@justwhoiam3726]

I went to school there for a year.

[@MitzvotTV]

I used to live in Sheffield just south of Iraan; there’s some good and not so good people out there, but in general good people

[@malachidrew8291]

My mom grew up in Sheffield, and we used to joke about going to visit Iran every summer when we went to see our grandparents

[@MitzvotTV]

@ my dad was a preacher at a church in Sheffield for 2 years, I loved it when the rain came down the road and you could watch it approach; incredibly peaceful memories

[@Clippz]

The white bald guy made this video. "I saw my ex-wife and IRAAN" "Dumas(s)." Can we be friends bro?

[@evanyount9173]

Somebody revoke the Texan's Texas card... Nacogdoches is literally the oldest town in Texas the birthplace of Texas and how can you not know that one? How can you listen to country music and not know Luckenbach Where's Bexar? Also I'm Texan and didn't know several of these

[@genesisdynamics9]

Its just plain old Nac

[@AEAADCAWAE]

Evan Yount actually Washington-on-the-Brazos is the birthplace of Texas because that’s where Texas Declaration of Independence was signed

[@FunnyPrankLaughs]

Fellow Texan here! Everything you said was correct! I didn’t even know some of these, but some of these are inexcusable for the native Texan woman.

[@taniapinto8294]

Bexar would have been great they would never habe gotten that one

[@taniapinto8294]

@@fernandovaldez5118 You are right it is a county. They still wouldn't have gotten it though lol.

[@ericalanevans]

While traveling from Dallas to Canyon, I drove through a town called Quiteque. I found out the locals there pronounce it as “Kitty-Kway” 🤣

[@jordan.newsom]

Born and raised in Nacogdoches! If you're ever in town, corndogs are on me!

[@Messi-me2zy]

Jordan Newsom are they from corn dog 7 in the lufkin mall

[@Messi-me2zy]

Or we could go to lufkin for some rays on me

[@jordan.newsom]

@@Messi-me2zy Ray's is pretty darn good! :)

[@folkloricogeek1]

I want to go 😍😍😍😍

[@imastatistic8347]

Nah fam I want some Jaliscience

[@ericvantassell6809]

The spirit of Waylon Jennings damns all those who mispronounced Luckenbach to perpetual Dumas-ery

[@YoureRightAndrea]

Lol I'm a Texan born and raised but the only reason I knew how to say Luckenbach is cuz I speak German pretty good.

[@zachdaniel6285]

HELL YEAH!

[@DS-rt1ed]

Yeah, that one shocked me...I assumed everyone knew how to pronounce Luckenbach

[@007Waffleman]

That song is what went through my mind right when I saw it

[@CailinnNoT]

MY HOME TEXAS BEST COUNTRY IN THE COUNTRY

[@boredom6507]

TheWayOf Cailinn you mean best state in the country 😂

[@cloud-lw6np]

@@boredom6507 no it used to be a country and to some people they still like saying it's a country

[@toastybillionaire4047]

@@boredom6507 Texas was a country for about a decade before becoming a state and would honestly do well as it's own country even now

[@boredom6507]

I agree 😂

[@cynninyt8094]

Should I tell her..?

[@JacksonTheExplorer]

As a person who lives in Mexia. Bro someone went to our school saying. Oh look it’s the Mex-e-a. And he got a lot of hate from our teachers😆

[@acmart99]

As a waxahachie native, hearing them all mispronounce my hometown is so hilarious 😂

[@LimegreenSnowstorm]

Is that really how you say it?? I grew up in Texas and that’s not how I said it D: The Dallas peeps be sayin it wrong

[@dej2183]

@@LimegreenSnowstorm either way more people say wox

[@utexashorns0542]

It’s annoying too. Lol, live there too

[@corbenhopgood9202]

Same here

[@karolinebeckett6944]

I used to drive to Waxahachie regularly. From Ennis lmao

[@davidcartwright6174]

There's a song by Waylon Jennings about Luckenbach, Texas

[@lucaslaw4487]

Exactly how do southern people not know how to say that

[@bkiller2363]

Lets go to Luckenbach Texas

[@connerdale4221]

@@bkiller2363 With Willie and Waylon and the boys

[@youraveragebanana6494]

I am in Texas I pronounce almost all of these different

[@crystalrodriguez5158]

Hahaha about the Refugio pronunciation! I’m a Texan, super south Texas, and I’ve never ever, in my 40 years of life, heard anyone say it like that 😂

[@elviejoinez]

Blame it on the gringada who could not properly pronounce the Spanish name. "Se me enchina el cuero" y "subo acete" whenever anyone mispronounces it and claims that this is the correct pronunciation. My college roommate in the 70's was from there and properly pronounced it.

[@PABLOESCOBAR-ph3el]

4:21 THE BLACK LADY PRONOUNCED IT RIGHT THAT'S A SPANISH WORD AND THAT'S HOW YOU SAY IT.

[@gianfrancostefanoli7854]

PABLO ESCOBAR Yeah

[@KenshiAS]

At 1:05 they say "Refugio" is correctly pronounced "Refurio" omg I can't

[@derekcarter2645]

The I was a bit too accented. The guy before actually pronounced it better. It's the Spanish word for palace.

[@ST-ov8cm]

But, that ain't how the town name is pronounced.

[@minnminnho5482]

Can you say Colored lady

[@TheDailyKyler]

from Houston texas ya'll

[@annadasht5141]

From Arlington y'all! YEE HAH!🐎🐎🐎

[@DevilleQueen]

H town represent. I know you laughed at everyone that mispronounced Humble & Nacagdoches!

[@melissahays7677]

Kyler or whatever Houston strong!!!!!

[@joshuaschmitz]

Should've added "Kuykendahl Rd" to this lol...were tf does the "R" come from 😂😂

[@DevilleQueen]

Yess! I die a little inside when my navigation system tries to say "Kuykendahl"

[@djinnko]

0:06 The older folks in my family called it "San Antone."

[@KoopaCoop0]

jinko that’s what it was originally named

[@maggie2sticks717]

Kinda run together like "San-tone"

[@ladyi7609]

The older folks in your family are looking for a stabbing. Also, that is NOT what it was originally named, Koopa Coop you fucking walnut.

[@timebleeder2814]

I'm in my 30s, born and raised in Texas. My family has live here since the late 1800s and, I call it San Antone. It's a very common and acceptable abbreviation.

[@rescue270]

@@djinnko A lot of San Antonians, including me, don't like it to be called "San Antone." "San-tone" is even worse. Just like San Franciscans hate "Frisco."

[@WINGNUT3377]

I’ma need somebody to pull that San Antone chick’s Texas card… go on, GIT!

[@theroidragedtrex7908]

I was off a few but I got most of em. The trick is applying a germanic twist to an already southern-esque twang. Whilst including a brush of Spanish, a sprig of Native American, and 1 drop of French.

[@amandagrayson389]

I am a Texan, living in Central Texas. A lot of the towns y’all had in this video were from my area. I didn’t know a few but I think I knew most of them. This is what happens when you have these different languages (German and Spanish) read and pronounced by people who only knew English. My favourite is Refugio. The Texan pronunciation of this town (re FUYR ee oh) is how English ears heard that guttural ‘g’ in Refugio. My favourite town name is Niederwald (NEE dear wahld). It is in south Central Texas, on the way to San Antonio. The area is mostly pasture land with trees here and there but not a lot. The German immigrants coming here in the 1830’s and 1840’s were stunned by this landscape, so very different from their homeland. They named their town Niederwald (‘never forest’).

[@bozimmerman]

My German grampa said his ancestors landed in Galveston island, went west, and then stopped when they saw the sauerkraut in the trees.

[@charlesdjones1]

If you like George Strait you already know half these.

[@jasongcrow5313]

All Texans are now singing Waylon right now. I didn’t get some of the West Texas ones as that is almost a different country from over here on the Gulf Coast. Also, I lived in Mexia for a couple of years. It’s “muh-HAY-uh” for all of Texas like they said, but the old-timers there say, “muh-HARE”

[@davidphares8618]

Waylon taught us how to say Luckenbach :-)

[@BigDogCountry]

Waylon taught us how _HE_ says Luckenbach.

[@Gablesman888]

@@BigDogCountry So did Willie.

[@chrisarnoldTX]

Someone revoke that women's Texan card

[@SheepdogSmokey]

I'm a 41YO Texan, never lived anywhere else, trust me, we screw with names on purpose! I really wish they'd have put Pfluegerville in just so we see their "What? Why is there a P!?!?"

[@silverlightx6]

Pflugerville, not far from Nameless. Which is a pretty bit of nothing.

[@SheepdogSmokey]

@@silverlightx6 Even if "a bit of nothing" Texas is always beautiful.

[@RebeccaJarisch]

You got that right!!! lol

[@AndresRicha]

there is two A's next to each other like A-A Ron hahahaha gotta love that key & peele reference.

[@elephanty8857]

As a fellow Texan, I only knew 5 of those lol. Never heard of the others. I guess they were small towns

[@kennahill9117]

most of these ARE small towns

[@elephanty8857]

Lol everytime I rewatch this I catch one that I know I that I didn't before lol. Like oh yeah I know that place. Or yeah I've driven thru there

[@natureandrandomstuff]

Dumas is North of Texas. 45 miles North from Amarillo. The rest are central and southern towns. I think. I know most of them but can't pronounce them tho.

[@TiryaC]

Should've thrown "Italy", Bexar", and "Seguin" in there. ;)

[@defenderguv8174]

TiryaC but Italy is just Italy

[@joeymoey23]

S Brooks it's definitely It-Lee

[@alittlefallofrainn]

Isn't Seguin just said the way its spelt? I'm not far from there and we have some schools near by with that name. Just "Seh-geen"

[@spookywillow]

throw in buda and see how many say “Buddha”

[@emery6049]

Could have thrown “Lorena” in there a lot of people pronounce it like lo-rain-a instead of Lo-re-na

[@SirMoeThe2nd]

Now do Terlingua, Uvalde, Pflugerville, and Balmorhea TX

[@the_real_littlepinkhousefly]

Nah, those pronounce exactly like they look ... ;)

[@SirMoeThe2nd]

@@the_real_littlepinkhousefly Why are you the way that you are? Honestly every time I try to jk jk😁😁

[@alexthompson1216]

wichita, texas

[@cr8tivecarbaholic]

Try Miami, TX . It's not what you think ! 😉

[@cr8tivecarbaholic]

@J Mireles perfect!

[@Mayito_Tamps]

3:12 me everytime i see the Exit sign 😂

[@jamessantacruz2748]

"yall just makin' letters up" 😂 what

[@dantej566]

'There's 2 a's next to each other... like A-A-Ron' 🤣😂🤣

[@a100921]

Texas state law; One must be hit in the head with a 2x4, before naming of town 😂

[@HappyTX20]

My momma was born in San Antonio and my Dad in Brady and all our family and everyone I know say San Antone. You can tell the generations have changed here!

[@cowplays4070]

“How bout a hint for 200 Alex” *Im literally dying* 😂

[@WillieHoward954]

"I'm doubting all of my grammatical education up until this point" 1:50 😂😂

[@Bearyo11]

As a kid who grew up in boerne I can approve we are always messed up in our pronunciation but after we made the little league World Series our town name is world wide

[@katerudasill]

Howdy from Texas, y'all! Born and raised in Nacogdoches...trying to learn to spell that in kindergarten was TOUGH! :) Our teachers taught us a song to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club theme song (and sometimes I still have to sing it to remember the "g").

[@thomasnievar2614]

Howdy neighbor!! Moved up to Lufkin about 8 years ago and my wife and I love it. Can't see livin' anyplace else but Deep East Texas!!! It is truly a Blessing from God!!!😃

[@jakehancock-db9rq]

Hey I’m also from Nac!

[@aidtij]

We lived in Uvalde for a while and wow did people get a giggle when we’d try to pronounce the nearby D’Hanis and Knippa lol not to mention, good old Bexar County

[@kathrynbale4935]

Have they never heard the song, Luckenbach, Texas!

[@dashawnallen9096]

I live in texas but from the south side so no i have never heard of that song

[@sasquach3.090]

New Braunfels: “it’s new right is the ‘N’ silent?” Good stuff! 😂 hilarious!

[@docpipkin8288]

As a Texan, I'm sad to say that I really underestimated how many there would be. The only ones I got right were Nacogdoches, Luckenbach, and Dumas.

[@jakehancock-db9rq]

As a Nacogdochian I appreciate it

[@austinhuber]

New category for the national spelling bee: spell these Texas city names!

[@jacquelinebouldin8191]

How could she be from San Antonio when we have a major street named nacogdoches?

[@LifeinLithuania]

I don't believe she's from San Antonio lol she shoulda known Gruene too

[@Messi-me2zy]

Jackie Bouldin exactly I was disappointed to not see Fredericksburg on the list as it’s a major street in San Antonio too

[@BIGBLOCK5022006]

@@Messi-me2zy How about Bandera Road, Vance Jackson, Wurzbach, San Pedro, or Military Drive?

[@jakehancock-db9rq]

I’m from Nacogdoches and I just found out about this street by reading all the comments lol

[@olibedsole1968]

I thought for sure Leakey Texas would be here for sure. (Pronounced “Lake-ie)

[@benney52]

I thought Pflugerville would be on here

[@Katfancy40]

There are a lot of German and Czech town's in TX. I'm from Corpus Christi Texas and raised in the Violet area that my Czech and German ancestors helped build. We love our crazy names!

[@logansrevenge1214]

I got'em all, but yes, so many names are weird down here. And like how the woman from San Antonio said she's been to new braunfels like is a different state. It's 20 minutes up the road😂