"we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet
April 14, 2019, 09:44 PM
slabsides45
I can say most folks I know pronounce it "shook-uh-lock". But what do I know?
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April 14, 2019, 10:00 PM
mdblanton
We’ve got another that didn’t make the video. About an hour from my location:
Gitano - pronounced ‘guy-tanner’.
Michael
April 14, 2019, 10:46 PM
sigmonkey
It ain't "MO-bull" "MO-bile" or "mo-BILE." It's "mo-BEEL, ALA-FUKKIN_BAMA!!!", bitches.
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
April 14, 2019, 11:24 PM
egregore
New Bern, NC is not pronounced as two separate words. You kind of run them together, i.e., "Newbern."
April 14, 2019, 11:51 PM
flashguy
quote:
Originally posted by egregore: New Bern, NC is not pronounced as two separate words. You kind of run them together, i.e., "Newbern."
Yup. Been through there several times back in the mid 1970s.
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth
April 15, 2019, 01:16 AM
sjp
quote:
Originally posted by egregore: New Bern, NC is not pronounced as two separate words. You kind of run them together, i.e., "Newbern."
I was stationed in Hobucken NC in Pamlico co, New Bern was the closest Walmart, and now i reside in Vancleave, MS which is next to Gautier MS.... i feel connected to this thread
April 15, 2019, 12:14 PM
Pipe Smoker
Menomonie (WI) doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue either.
The county my father was born in and Ole Miss resides in is named for the famous French general of American Revolutionary War fame: Lafayette.
That is la-FAY-et in Mississippian.
April 16, 2019, 08:10 AM
x0225095
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Originally posted by cne32507: The county my father was born in and Ole Miss resides in is named for the famous French general of American Revolutionary War fame: Lafayette.
That is la-FAY-et in Mississippian.
We’ve got a la~FAY~et too!
And a Palmer and a Remlap.....two brothers that started a town (Palmer) only to have a disagreement so the other brother moved a short distance away where he founded another town (Remlap....which is Palmer spelled backwards).
LOL
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April 16, 2019, 02:56 PM
selogic
I could take you to some towns in Louisiana that would make you just give up and concede defeat .
...How well did you do?...me, not so good!