Being in the south, how do you think Martinez, GA just outside of Augusta is pronounced?
Jay
Mar-tin-ezz?
Cajon, Tehachapi, La Jolla. Those are easy. Now pronounce San Joaquin Valley Note, it doesn’t sound like the flowering bulb. There’s a reason they just call it the central valley. I had some problem initially with the Native based names in Oregon, but ironically, being a computer nerd helped me. Intel taught me how to pronounce Willamette and Tualatin and Deschutes. And of course, you have to pronounce Oregon right in the first place. And Aloha isn’t pronounced the way Hawaiins do and for some reason Oregonians can’t spell Milwaukee right. They need to spell it Milwaukie.
Dale, should we tease 'em with Ucluelet?
Jay:
I am not sure of the Georgia-correct pronunciation, I would suspect that it is all about a long aaaaaaa!
I had enough of a time when my neighbors pronounced “Faye’vil” for Fayetteville, and I pretty much gave up on Atlanta, and it was Hot-Lanta or shortly “ATL” in e-mail correspondence, VI-day- Li-a (my favorite onion) was Va-dal-ya to the locals.
It’s a great country ( or COUNTRIES, with A TIP O THA’ HAT TO DALE& CRANDELL), [bow]
if you don’t let its’ linguistic Idiosyncrasies drive you over the edge![(-D][(-D][swg]
Whenever I hear tourists asking for directions to get there, they always seem to say YUCK-o-let or YUCK-u-let. I go with U-Q-let myself, but U-clue-let is probably better.
Juniata Locomotive Shops
How is Juniata pronounced? Also, is it Read-ing or Red-ing Railroad?
The naval air station in Iceland was once known as NAS Kwitcherbellyakin!
Good thing you never encountered my high school Spanish teaching wife (ret.) as she may have wack you on the side of your head with a ruler. LOL.
For a real test try the pronunciation of Valladolid, the Spain city that we visited last fall.
Kay-DEEZ
Okay, it is June - eee - at - uh…right?
Dale, I’m partial to You - CLUE - let.
And Tims, that was something to be proud of.! [8D] The correct (closest I can get) pronounciation is:
Eh - ya - fiAT - la - YOkootch Don’t say it when any social workers are around. They pack you off.
-Crandell
The Exxon Valdez, that had the major oil spill in Alaska was named after Valdez, Alaska- pronounced Val-deez.
Seriously, I thought it was Nan-YIGH-Moe.
-Norris in Sow-duh-Coe-duh, the state south of NORT ! Uh-coat-uh.
Wow! This could be fun! As a multi-lingual (6) army interpreter (all European) it might prove challenging. I have cousins (Jack & Tess Hanlin) that live in Chaumont, NY, ex-of the New York Central. Cool place! Yar, Cajon is the proper spelling. I hate to transliterate, but “Kay-HONE” is close. Kind of rhymes with pugga ma hon in Gaidhlig. Crandell: For more info, send me some “Naniamo Bars”. It has been a long time since I had one! P. S.: I do have a Watertown Times clipping of the “last train from Clayton”!
Hays
Crandell/ selector has Juniata correctly above, as I know it. Reading is “Red-ing” for both the railroad and its namesake city. - Paul North. (just down Mauch Chunk Road from Hokendauqua, Catasauqua, Tamaqua, Nesquehoning, and a few others of like kind . . . ).
James and Sam,
As far as Martinez, GA–the i is totally disregarded so it is pronounced Mart–nez. One of those words that identifies visitors.
Now try Taliaferro which is a county here in Georgia roughly half way between Atlanta and Augusta.
Jay
I’m guessing the I is silent…
We can’t forget “Dew-rand”, either.
Not far from here is Madrid - in this case pronounced “Mad-drid,” emphasis on the first syllable.
Also not far from here is Lowville. The “ville” is normal, but the “low” is pronounced “lau”, not “lo” with a long O. It was on the Utica & Black River (which mileposts are still used today) as well as being one end of the Lowville & Beaver River, now part of the GVT family, if inactive.
Chaumont was on the original main of the Rome and Watertown, predecessor to the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg, which at one time ran many of the rails north of today’s NYS Thruway and west of the Adirondacks. The RW&O joined the Central family around 1900 or so.
Anyone (Sam?) happen to know why Kansas and Arkansas don’t rhyme? Since Arkansas was a territory in 1819, and Kansas not until 1854, surely everyone in Kansas already knew how Arkansas was pronounced?
When sitting in the Worcester Massachusetts station in 1952 on The New England States I learned how to properly pronounce this city; and that I was on the B&A not NYC according to the conductor.