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49. I've lived there and heard it pronounced both ways. It's not like in Illinois,

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Wed Aug 23, 2017, 09:00 PM

Aug 2017

where you cringe if you hear someone pronounce the final S.

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How do you pronounce "Charlottesville"? [View all] spiderpig Aug 2017 OP

I have never heard anything other than the entire word pronounced: 'shar-luts-vil' CurtEastPoint Aug 2017 #1

That's the correct one Warpy Aug 2017 #29

+1 Blue_Tires Aug 2017 #57

Like the city in North Carolina with a -sville added. Goodheart Aug 2017 #2

I grew up in Charlotte and people often confuse it with Char'ville and Charleston. FFS. CurtEastPoint Aug 2017 #39

Where are these "lot of people"? Never heard anything other than "Charlottesville," like it looks. WinkyDink Aug 2017 #3

reminds me...did you hear Dump last night? He said "formenting" instead of Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2017 #4

I heard that too. cwydro Aug 2017 #48

Shar - Lots -vill NutmegYankee Aug 2017 #5

They are not in the same region of VA. nt LexVegas Aug 2017 #10

People in state considered them to be the same region (Blueridge mountain and valley). NutmegYankee Aug 2017 #12

Cville is Piedmont. Its 45 minutes from I81. nt LexVegas Aug 2017 #17

I'm aware. Just East of Afton Mountain. NutmegYankee Aug 2017 #27

No, they do not consider them the same area at all obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #19

Whatever. NutmegYankee Aug 2017 #20

Not "whatever" -- I went to UVA, undergrad and grad, and don't care what the VYD say obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #23

I lived in VA too. See post 30. NutmegYankee Aug 2017 #31

I doubt they consider it the same region. Its closer to Richmond than it is to Tech. LexVegas Aug 2017 #26

They broke the state into 4 major regions for organization. NutmegYankee Aug 2017 #30

Hokies suck. WAHOOWA!!! Alpeduez21 Aug 2017 #11

I figured someone would get it. NutmegYankee Aug 2017 #13

Family who live there all pronounce it Charlottes-ville. 50 Shades Of Blue Aug 2017 #6

"ville' or 'vul' crazycatlady Aug 2017 #41

Will. 50 Shades Of Blue Aug 2017 #42

Northern pronunciation :-) crazycatlady Aug 2017 #44

I don't know but I do know it's the home town of some of them. 50 Shades Of Blue Aug 2017 #47

Lived right next to it for years. linuxman Aug 2017 #7

I live in VA and have never heard it pronounced that way. nt LexVegas Aug 2017 #8

20 years in Georgia and OldHippieChick Aug 2017 #9

I'm from Charlottesville, and it is pronounced Shar-lots-ville Nitram Aug 2017 #14

There is a C'ville Alpeduez21 Aug 2017 #15

Thank you to everybody spiderpig Aug 2017 #16

For advanced Virginian, pronounce Staunton, Swoope, & Fries FSogol Aug 2017 #18

Try Buchanan and Wytheville. nt LexVegas Aug 2017 #21

Or Crozet, Weyers Cave, and Purcellville FSogol Aug 2017 #24

Botetourt, Buena Vista and Grottoes. LexVegas Aug 2017 #28

My favorite is Roanoke Alpeduez21 Aug 2017 #36

I live there. LexVegas Aug 2017 #37

I've only ever seen the Alpeduez21 Aug 2017 #38

I'm in Clifton Forge. dgibby Aug 2017 #43

Galax NutmegYankee Aug 2017 #35

easy peasy stanton obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #22

Let's see NutmegYankee Aug 2017 #34

And Taliaferro! Tanuki Aug 2017 #45

What could be easier? Just like it reads. L. Coyote Aug 2017 #25

... NutmegYankee Aug 2017 #32

Henrico County nocoincidences Aug 2017 #33

But the REAL question is... how does one properly pronounce NORFOLK? CurtEastPoint Aug 2017 #40

Easy -- about the same way you pronounce "Suffolk" Buns_of_Fire Aug 2017 #59

As to your reference to Louisville... GulfCoast66 Aug 2017 #46

I've lived there and heard it pronounced both ways. It's not like in Illinois, pnwmom Aug 2017 #49

When I moved to C'ville in the '60's from Maryland, the Realtor beveeheart Aug 2017 #50

"Nuremberg" dchill Aug 2017 #51

I have heard "Louisville" reduced to one syllable GeoWilliam750 Aug 2017 #52

just call it Trump's Waterloo torius Aug 2017 #53

like it's written Spider Jerusalem Aug 2017 #54

Does that part of VA drop their Rs? Abu Pepe Aug 2017 #55

People in Georgia don't do that, actually Spider Jerusalem Aug 2017 #56

interesting Abu Pepe Aug 2017 #58

More of an age and geography thing Spider Jerusalem Aug 2017 #61

Throat-Wobbler Mangrove muriel_volestrangler Aug 2017 #60

shar-luts-ville HAB911 Aug 2017 #62

Shallow V HughBeaumont Aug 2017 #63

My Mom grew up there and I lived in Virginia as a child...we and all my relatives said Demsrule86 Aug 2017 #64