Pronunciation of other countries

[GilpinGuy]

Some coworker was talking about how he's going to Mexico on vacation. Good for him.

During the conversation he kept saying "May-he-co" like Mexicans folks say it. It kinda annoyed me so I asked him why he said it that way. He said he was being respectful and just saying like it should be said.

I then asked him why Mexicans say "Estados Unidos" instead of "United States". Deer in the headlights.

Same goes for so many countries. Just bugs me when Americans think they need to, I don't know, conform to another language. Are they trying to impress someone?

Qatar is another one that bugs me. I thought it was "kah-tar" most of my life. Now I hear "gudder".

I guess I'm a Neanderthal. [zombie1]

[crashdown]

Neanderthal or NeandertalNow, what about the term Neanderthal? Most informed people prefer the more German-like pronunciation nay-ander-TALL. That's because Neanderthal is a German word and German does not have the th sound of English “the.” The Neandertal (the alternate English or German spelling) is a valley (Tal) named for a German by the name of Neumann (new man). The Greek form of his name is Neander. The fossilized bones of Neandertal man (homo neanderthalensis is the official Latin name) were found in the Neander Valley. Whether you spell it with a t or th, the better pronunciation is nay-ander-TALL without the th sound. There are some paleoanthropologists and other experts in the field who still say nay-ander-THALL, but they're wrong.





Probably saying that wrong too.

[TEAMRICO]

I just refer to other countries as Sh!tholes.......

[TFOGGER]

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[hghclsswhitetrsh]

^^^ haha

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[Irving]

Classic reference.

[GilpinGuy]

Probably saying that wrong too.

Guilty. But auto correct does change to "Neanderthal". :)

[MrPrena]

We are not as bad as some European countries. Some of them get offended if we pronounce anything in English.

Some of us cannot even pronounce Heckler & Koch, Porsche, Volkswagon correctly in German either.

[sniper7]

I'll just continue to not give a shit. They should learn English!

[Colorado Osprey]

Qatar is another one that bugs me. I thought it was "kah-tar" most of my life. Now I hear "gudder".


My father was just there and got corrected by the locals. They pronounce it like we say 'Guitar'... He also heard it like we pronounce 'Cutter'.
Pretty bad when the locals have 2 ways of pronouncing it.

Speaking of which, he said that the people they have so much money that they leave things behind everywhere. He has never seen so many Lexus and Super-Cars.
The only thing people return for there is their I-phones.

[Aloha_Shooter]

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Obviously done by some dang Commie Canadian making fun of Americans. No self-respecting American would add a 'u' to "neighbor" or spell "civilization" with an 's'.

[Zundfolge]

Considering we live in Col-o-rad-oh ... er Col-uh-rad-oh ... er Col-o-rah-do ... er Col-uh-rah-do ... I'm not going to worry about mispronouncing other place names. Dammit.

[Fentonite]

Or when some goofy newscaster is speaking in perfect English (with not so much as even a regional accent), and all of a sudden they have to show how multiple-cultural they are, sounding like they've switched languages, blurting out someone's name with a bunch of rolling r's and whatnot. Nevermind that the "Rodriguez" they are talking about has lived here his whole life, doesn't speak Spanish, and certainly doesn't pronounce his own name like he's the ring announcer at a boxing match in Mexico City.

But I'm probably just a Neanderthal too.

[Ronin13]

We are not as bad as some European countries. Some of them get offended if we pronounce anything in English.

Some of us cannot even pronounce Heckler & Koch, Porsche, Volkswagon correctly in German either.
No kidding, when I was younger (I'd say 11 or so), I would pronounce it "Heckler & Kotch"- that is until I was corrected to the right way to pronounce it, like "Coke".

Considering we live in Col-o-rad-oh ... er Col-uh-rad-oh ... er Col-o-rah-do ... er Col-uh-rah-do ... I'm not going to worry about mispronouncing other place names. Dammit.
Which dipshit in our state legislation pronounces it "Col-o-ra-dah"? When people pronounce it like that I always want to find a banjo and make them feel like they're back home in Mississippi, because those are the only ones allowed to mispronounce our state like that.
Had a guy in my AIT (mind you this is the US Army Intelligence school, not the easiest to get into, or so we thought) who no shit couldn't pronounce "Eritrea."

[Zundfolge]

No kidding, when I was younger (I'd say 11 or so), I would pronounce it "Heckler & Kotch"- that is until I was corrected to the right way to pronounce it, like "Coke".

I grew up in Wichita Kansas, home of Koch Industries. So I always pronounced it correctly. That said for years I pronounced former NYC Mayor Ed Koch as "Ed Coke".

[sniper7]

I'll just continue to not give a shit. They should learn English!


Considering we live in Col-o-rad-oh ... er Col-uh-rad-oh ... er Col-o-rah-do ... er Col-uh-rah-do ... I'm not going to worry about mispronouncing other place names. Dammit.


Its fs fun to be in Louisville, KY and listen to the people there bitch about that name and all the different pronunciations!

[Zundfolge]

Oh another fun thing about growing up in Kansas is that within the borders of Kansas anything named Arkansas is pronounced "Are-Kansas" (this includes the river, the town and any streets) If its located outside Kansas you pronounce it "ark-in-saw". I always thought that this was Kansas being too clever by half, but apparently the pronunciation of Arkansas was disputed even in Arkansas up until 1881 when they officially made it "ark-in-saw".

Lots of fun to move to Colorado and have to stop and think every time you mention the Arkansas river.

Oh and one that always annoyed me even as a native was Greenwich Road in Wichita ... its pronounced "Green Which" ... I always refused and called in Grennich anyway.

[james_bond_007]

Louisville, KY.......LEW-e-vil (as in slugger), LEW-a-vul, LEW-vul, etc.
Louisville, CO .....Lew-IS-vil

[rbeau30]

Careful if you are at work, Fbomb in it.


http://youtu.be/CIsRN9qTA1g

[HoneyBadger]

Louisville, KY.......LEW-e-vil (as in slugger), LEW-a-vul, LEW-vul, etc.
Louisville, CO .....Lew-IS-vil
I believe the correct pronunciation of Lousville, KY is LUL-vull. I could be wrong here... I'm from Michigan, which is actually pronounced "MISH-ih-gan" not "Mitch-uh-ginn" ....These are the same people who say "Chih-KAAH-go" instead of "SHIH-kah-go". [facepalm]

But that is a funny one between KY and CO.

[Sharpienads]

The correct pronunciation of Qatar is "Devil's Asshole". That place sucks. Hard.

[davsel]

Wife recently returned from New Orleans and insists on saying Naw-lins.
I grew up outside Houston (Hew-stin), and it has always been New Or-leans.
I blame Popeye's Chicken and Cajun chef's for spreading the nonsense.

Then there's the countries of Chili, and now T̶h̶e̶ Ukraine.

[lc_nab]

Well if you want to get technical, the proper way to say it would be The United States of North America, and when you say americans, you are including everyone North,Central and South. We must be bored at work, moaning about others peoples pronunciation lol.

The map killed me, thank you for the laughs hahahha.

The one that always gets me is this two names in Massachusetts, Worcester ( Wooostah) and there was another town which name I forgot, I am like... how the hell from Worcester goes to Wooostah ...

[Ronin13]

The correct pronunciation of Qatar is "Devil's Asshole". That place sucks. Hard.
So I've heard. But then again, the guy I know who had to spend 18 months there was getting $200K/yr so it wasn't all bad.

[spyder]

My first wife was from New Orleans. Because of her and her attitude of saying it how it is spelled, I ended up being accustomed to Newallens.

What I can't get around is the lack of grammar skills of the people around me in this little ass stupid town I live in now in Texas... About half are Mexicans, and about half of those don't speak English of any sort. And 95% of all English speaking people here don't know the word "sell". When they try to say "I want to sell this", they say "I want to sale this". This bugs me so damn much... Every time I hear the Garth Brooks song "The River", I laugh through the entire song... To those of you that don't know, it's the song that goes "So I will sail my vessel till the river runs dry, like a bird upon the wind.... bla bla bla", anyway, I hate country, but this song cracks me up considering the lack of grammar going on in this shit hole and just imagining that everyone in this town is confused by the song.....

[SideShow Bob]

Considering we live in Col-o-rad-oh ... er Col-uh-rad-oh ... er Col-o-rah-do ... er Col-uh-rah-do ... I'm not going to worry about mispronouncing other place names. Dammit.

Which ever way you pronounce it, don't forget to roll them R's.................

[GilpinGuy]

Cahlahrahdah.

New York style. [Coffee]

[bellavite1]

Problem is there are no strict pronunciation rules in English.
German is veryprecise in that, for instance.
So, there is a lot of room for interpretation.
With that being said, it really pisses me off when people asks me if I am Ai-thalian...Yeah, I was born in Ai-thalee...[hahhah-no]

[ruthabagah]

One of my coworker is from Austria.... On a daily basis people ask her if she has seen kangaroo in the wild and / or if Sidney is a nice place to visit......[facepalm]

[funkymonkey1111]

Wife recently returned from New Orleans and insists on saying Naw-lins.
I grew up outside Houston (Hew-stin), and it has always been New Or-leans.
I blame Popeye's Chicken and Cajun chef's for spreading the nonsense.

Then there's the countries of Chili, and now T̶h̶e̶ Ukraine.

"nawlins" is right there with Frisco and Beantown as a sure sign of an outsider.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

N
Which dipshit in our state legislation pronounces it "Col-o-ra-dah"?

Well, Rhonda "Rap Sheet" Fields continuously pronounced it Cah-doh-dah-doh during the magazine 'debates' last fall.



With that being said, it really pisses me off when people asks me if I am Ai-thalian...Yeah, I was born in Ai-thalee...[hahhah-no]

An old neighbor almost perf'd his colon at me for the same thing.

[james_bond_007]

Then there are those that want to get their "money's worth" and pronounce ALL the letters ...even the silent ones.

EX: Illinois -> ill-a NOISE (ill-a-NOY)

[james_bond_007]

One of my coworker is from Austria.... On a daily basis people ask her if she has seen kangaroo in the wild and / or if Sidney is a nice place to visit......[facepalm]

I once mentioned OHIO to a guy for some reason.
He asked "Isn't that where they grow all them potatoes ?" [facepalm]

[james_bond_007]

And lest we forget the:

nuclear -> NEW-kyu-ler (rather than NEW-klee-er)

Knew a Marine Biologist that mispronounced this one...and argued she was right:
anemone -> uh-NEN-a-me (rather than a-NEM-o-nee)

[HoneyBadger]

And lest we forget the:

nuclear -> NEW-kyu-ler (rather than NEW-klee-er)

Knew a Marine Biologist that mispronounced this one...and argued she was right:
anemone -> uh-NEN-a-me (rather than a-NEM-o-nee)
Since we're totally off geography now...


WTF is with people who pronounce Chipotle as if it were spelled "Chipolte"? THE T COMES BEFORE THE L!

[funkymonkey1111]

Since we're totally off geography now...


WTF is with people who pronounce Chipotle as if it were spelled "Chipolte"? THE T COMES BEFORE THE L!

or that mexican it up with "SHEEEE poat lay"

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Then there are those that want to get their "money's worth" and pronounce ALL the letters ...even the silent ones.

EX: Illinois -> ill-a NOISE (ill-a-NOY)

This works for those in Wisconsin, btw.

[Great-Kazoo]

Since we're totally off geography now...


WTF is with people who pronounce Chipotle as if it were spelled "Chipolte"? THE T COMES BEFORE THE L!


The T is a soft ,T Like Coke is a hard C. Cat etc.

[centrarchidae]

The T is a soft ,T Like Coke is a hard C. Cat etc.

I thought that T was only soft until you started mixing in Jim Beam.

[wctriumph]

My last name is spelled Smith but they are all silent so it is properly pronounced Murphy.

[Great-Kazoo]

I thought that T was only soft until you started mixing in Jim Beam.

Only with Ice I See

[MrPrena]

Problem is there are no strict pronunciation rules in English.
German is veryprecise in that, for instance.
So, there is a lot of room for interpretation.
With that being said, it really pisses me off when people asks me if I am Ai-thalian...Yeah, I was born in Ai-thalee...[hahhah-no]

I understand.

Some people say
I-ran
I-raq

[funkymonkey1111]

with that being said, it really pisses me off when people asks me if I am Ai-thalian...Yeah, I was born in Ai-thalee...[hahhah-no]

perhaps they're just being polite instead of saying what they really mean?

[MrPrena]

I remember one of idiot who kept asking Spaniard international student
"Are you Mexican? from Me-hee-ko?"

It just make some people look stupid that every Spanish speaker is from Me-hee-ko.

[Persocon]

I've heard butchering of Hornady into Horna day, and Hodgdon to Hog don, and asphalt to ASH fault, Garand to guh-Rand instead of rhyming with errand

[Irving]

How do you pronounce Hodgdon?

[TFOGGER]

Hahj-dun

[robertcolorado2009]

I am shocked no one mentioned the city of Quayhog.

[Irving]

Hahj-dun

I'll just stick with Accurate.