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  1. 01-20-2007, 05:15 PM #1
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    Default It's Burnit durnit!

    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?
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  2. 01-20-2007, 05:18 PM #2
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    Default Re: It's Burnit durnit!

    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"
  3. 01-20-2007, 05:29 PM #3
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    Borne and Bexar County don't sound they way they are spelt.
  4. 01-20-2007, 05:34 PM #4
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    it helps if you spell boerne right
  5. 01-20-2007, 05:36 PM #5
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  6. 01-20-2007, 05:39 PM #6
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    Originally posted by bulldogman06
    it helps if you spell boerne right
    regardless it still doesn't sound they way it is spelled.
  7. 01-20-2007, 05:40 PM #7
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    yea i know, just just wanted to say somethin on the subject, and there was my opening
  8. 01-20-2007, 05:46 PM #8
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    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"
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    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"...
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    My brother swears that Leakey is pronounced Leak-ee and not Lake-ee. If only he was as smart as his brother
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    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
    forgot about Leakey... Geez, what is up with the names of Hill Country towns...

    And Canyon Lake is pronounced Canyon LEAK... jk again
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    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).
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    Liberty Hill is now correctly pronouced as STATE CHAMPIONS!!!!

    LIBERTY HILL, STILL ONE OF THE BEST PROGRAMS IN TEXAS!!!!!
  14. 01-20-2007, 07:43 PM #14
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    I hear people pronouncing Celina as Sah-lee-na


    I am sometimes mistaken, but I am never wrong.

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    and teague, texas teague when it is really tig
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