It's Burnit durnit!

[charlesrixey]

Anyone know of any other famous mis-pronounciations of Texas Towns or teams?

Eylau is one

feel free to add you questions or explanations

And just how do you say Refugio?

[Gobbla2001]

Originally posted by charlesrixey
Anyone know of any other famous mis-pronounciations of Texas Towns or teams?

Eylau is one

feel free to add you questions or explanations

And just how do you say Refugio?

Most of us down here say Refugio "Ruh-fear-ee-o"

[Hansum Stranger]

Borne and Bexar County don't sound they way they are spelt.

[bulldogman06]

it helps if you spell boerne right

[mwynn05]

Mexia, Palestine

[Hansum Stranger]

Originally posted by bulldogman06
it helps if you spell boerne right

regardless it still doesn't sound they way it is spelled. :rolleyes:

[bulldogman06]

yea i know, just just wanted to say somethin on the subject, and there was my opening

[Gobbla2001]

Bay City... it is said like "Bay Site-ee".... jk

I will not spell out how I first said Decatur... I said it to Gsquared once... he says "HUHH?"

Jourdanton, I hear people pronounce that wrong...

And dear lord the arguement I got in with a co-work about how to pronounce "Buda"... it's not the fat man, it's pronounced "B-you-duh"

Also, Blanco... some pronounce it like someone speaking spanish would... but it's as simple as it looks... "Blank-O"

[Gobbla2001]

Oh, and Llano... had to straighten out my ex-girlfriend's roomate at UT about that one... "But my history teacher said it's pronounced this way"... "Well, your history teacher's wronnnnnnnngggggg"...

[Hansum Stranger]

My brother swears that Leakey is pronounced Leak-ee and not Lake-ee. If only he was as smart as his brother :D

[Gobbla2001]

Originally posted by Hansum Stranger
My brother swears that Leakey is pronounced Leak-ee and not Lake-ee. If only he was as smart as his brother :D

forgot about Leakey... Geez, what is up with the names of Hill Country towns...

And Canyon Lake is pronounced Canyon LEAK... jk again

[CenTexSports]

Waxahatchie (sp) is always mispronounced by people from outside of Texas and I heard a weather lady on the WC mis pronounce Corsicana (sp) (yesterday).

[rundoe]

Liberty Hill is now correctly pronouced as STATE CHAMPIONS!!!! :cool:

[Emerson1]

I hear people pronouncing Celina as Sah-lee-na

[coach]

and teague, texas teague when it is really tig

[Crow22]

My hometown of Joaquin....(Waw-Keen)

[luvhoops34]

Poth, Tx

It's pronounced with a long "O". Poooooth

Everybody wants to say "pawth". I tell them it's German and has the long "O" sound.

[buff4life]

Originally posted by rundoe
Liberty Hill is now correctly pronouced as STATE CHAMPIONS!!!! :cool:

YAY!!!!>>>>>>>..........NOT, last time i checked if i wanted to go to Liberty Hill, i called it Liberty Hill, just me though

[GreenMonster]

Tiny little Miami up in the panhandle is pronounced My-Am-Uh. There are also some locals that pronounce Iowa Park as I-way Park. Haven't figured that one out yet. :thinking:

[burnet44]

Chris to vol
not
Christ to val

[charlesrixey]

Originally posted by CenTexSports
Waxahatchie (sp) is always mispronounced by people from outside of Texas and I heard a weather lady on the WC mis pronounce Corsicana (sp) (yesterday).

Waxahachie is pronounced Woks-a-hatchie, not Wax

my wife laughed at me much for saying it wrong, as it is her home town.

[BreckTxLonghorn]

Breckenridge never gets mispronounced....until you move to austin....and you have Brackenridge hospital nearby...then it never ends...

[pirate4state]

Sinton = sittin' :D

[CalallenWildcat]

Originally posted by Gobbla2001
Most of us down here say Refugio "Ruh-fear-ee-o"

I used to have family in Refugio, they said "Ruh-fury-oh"

[SintonFan_inAustin]

Originally posted by pirate4state
Sinton = sittin' :D u have to say it fast though ;)

[CalallenWildcat]

Calallen = Cal-Al-Len
Famous mispronounciations "Callahan," "Call-a-lan" "Call-all-en" etc.

[Phantom Stang]

Colorado City

[burnet44]

Sweetwater=Swater

[Haunta Yo]

Originally posted by charlesrixey
Waxahachie is pronounced Woks-a-hatchie, not Wax

my wife laughed at me much for saying it wrong, as it is her home town.

If she's from Waxahachie she knows it's Ennis like "Tennis", not
"E"nis like p3nis

[slpybear the bullfan]

Originally posted by Gobbla2001


I will not spell out how I first said Decatur... I said it to Gsquared once... he says "HUHH?"



Just say it with a lot of distaste in your voice. That is what we do in Bridgeport! :D

I would throw Alvord in there. Almost everyone who is not from there calls it ALVOID... just like some kind of Yankee. I just want to look at them and say... "Where is the I in it? AlvoRd!!!!!"

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by Phantom Stang
Colorado City

C-City to all of us W. Texas folk!:D

[CenTexSports]

I used to work with a guy from Colorado City. He went to school with Don Maynard and they had some saying about living there. It started: "Colorado City, two stores, two whores, and a blacksmith; -- miles from Sweatwater, asphalt all the way......" I dont remember the rest.

He told me that Maynard was a plumber during the off season (football back then was not as lucrative as it is now). He asked Maynard why he picked plumbing and he said that learning a pro playbook was a lot of work but with plumbing you only had to remember two things:

1) Pipe don't stretch.

2) Sh_t don't run uphill.