Correct Texas pronunciation of various towns?

[MTA]

Decatur - Deck a turd? Or Dee kay tur?
Caddo mills - kay dough mills or cad o mills?

 

[kbaxter60]

Quill e yute & Pew al up

Not bad.
Since I was a displaced Texan, I called it POO-Y'all-Up and it usually made the locals laugh.
Mom grew up in Ellensburg and said it Poo-YALL-ip.

 

[General Zod]

Cleburne - Klee burn? Clay burn? Kleb bern?

Elgin - L gin(like the booze)? Lgin(rhymes with kin)?

Manchaca - Mon shah kah? Man shack?

Palestine- palace steen? Palace stein? Puh less ten?

Rosharon - row shaw ron? Row share in?

Manchaca is pronounced "Man Shack". Even the ESL kids I went to high school called it that.

Also, Buda is not "Buddha", it's "BYOO-duh".

Palestine: "Palace-teen".

Burnet? "Burn it".

 

[easy rider]

Not bad.
Since I was a displaced Texan, I called it POO-Y'all-Up and it usually made the locals laugh.
Mom grew up in Ellensburg and said it Poo-YALL-ip.

Before I became a born again Texan, I was born in Seattle, Wa. and lived on both sides of the Cascades.

But yeah, because of the paper mills in Puyallup, I used call it P U Allup.

 

[Vaquero]

Also, Buda is not "Buddha", it's "BYOO-duh".

It's the same if you talk slow enough.

 

[Charlie]

As a young and dumb smart-ass teenager having been born and raised in Waco,

we always pronounced it "Wacko" instead of just plain Waco.

 

[vmax]

Take a ahot

 

[Vaquero]

Tucks E Doe

 

[Colonel]

Pasadena pronounced Pasa-getdown-dena

 

[PinnedandRecessed]

Elgin = hard g
Boerne = burn-eee
San Marcos = San Marcus
Bexar = Bear
Seguin = Seh-Geeen
New Braunfels = New Bra Fulls ( . )( . )
Gruene = Green

 

[Texasgordo]

Manchaca is pronounced "Man Shack". Even the ESL kids I went to high school called it that.

Do you mean Menchaca

 

[glenbo]

Pasadena pronounced Pasa-getdown-dena

Where the grass is green and the air is greener.

 

[Sasquatch]

Not bad.
Since I was a displaced Texan, I called it POO-Y'all-Up and it usually made the locals laugh.
Mom grew up in Ellensburg and said it Poo-YALL-ip.

A couple easy ones from my former neck of the woods

Tualatin -- Two All Uh Tin

Willamette -- Will Am it

Umatilla - You Muh Till Uh

Elgin (west coasters pronounce it "L-gin")

Terrabonne - Tara Bone

Champoeg - Shampoo-ey

 

[Cool 'Horn Luke]

Let's not forget good 'ol Mah-hay-ah (Mexia).

 

[General Zod]

Do you mean Menchaca

No. There is no town near Austin named "Menchaca", nor named after anyone named Menchaca. The town is Manchaca, and it's an anglicization of an Indian word. The confusion comes in because the Menchaca family lives there, and the local elementary school is named for one of their ancestors. So kids go to Menchaca Elementary School...in Manchaca, TX.

 

[kbaxter60]

You can probably do this with most states. For instance: In Washington state there is a town called Sequim that many get wrong. It's pronounced as Skwim.

I had relatives in Sequim.
Interesting that it works differently for Seguin. Skwin?

 

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[Bozz10mm]

Loo Ling, not Lull ing.

 

[Eli]

Pasadena pronounced Pasa-getdown-dena

Stinka-dena

Eli

 

[Colonel]

Stinka-dena

Eli

I knew that was coming